mor tagging is as i-PL

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Janet,

    For MOR to work properly on this, you need to transcribe this as i at l-s.  It is ugly, but for the plurals of letters, this is the way it must be done.

-- Brian MacWhinney, Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Computational Linguistics, and Modern Languages, CMU

> On Jul 30, 2019, at 9:04 PM, Janet Bang <jbang at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I apologize, I don't believe there is anything wrong with the mor library. We had included the letter "i" as a noun in order to capture the following sentence: 
> 
> Here "i" is referring to the letter.
> MOT: she know's all her i's
> 
> In this example, "i" was coming up as an unknown word, and we were not able to do i at l's. Is there a way for us to transcribe this line to capture this as a plural of the letter i? Or some way to include this letter to our internal library to capture this as a different type? 
> 
> Thank you,
> Janet
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 4:32 PM Janet Y Bang <jbang at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> We are running the following code to get word types: 
> freq +sm;*,o% @
> 
> We noticed that for some instance of "is", that mor is treating it as is-PL: 
> *MOT: I don't think I know what a pegasus is .
> %mor: pro:sub|I mod|do~neg|not v|think pro:sub|I v|know pro:int|what det:art|a n|pegasus n|i-PL .
> 
> 
> Do you have suggestions for how we might be able to fix this automatically? 
> 
> Thank you,
> Janet
> 
> 
> 
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> Janet Y. Bang, Ph.D.
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> Department of Psychology
> Stanford University
> 
> jbang at stanford.edu
> 
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