Coordinating tiers with CLAN

[Patti Spinner]

Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions.  I do have the problem that I don't
have a one-to-one match between the words in the main line and on the
dependent tiers.  I think I'll go back and try it a few different ways and
we'll see how it goes!  If I think of some useful extensions, I will also
let you know.

Patti Spinner



>From: "Brian MacWhinney" <macw at cmu.edu>
>To: "Patti Spinner" <pattispinner at hotmail.com>
>CC: info-chibolts at mail.talkbank.org
>Subject: Re: Coordinating tiers with CLAN
>Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 11:24:09 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Dear Patti, Charles, Javier, and Info-ChiBolts,
>   Javier's answer was extremely accurate and helpful.  He pointed out the
>importance of adding an asterisk to mark the error on the %mor line, the
>use of freq, and the use of modrep.  I would only add a couple of
>things.  First, you can use what the manual calls cross-tier COMBO to
>spot most of these beasts.  The only problem with cross-tier COMBO is
>that the search strings are tricky to compose, but there are examples in
>the manual.  Second, Javier correctly points out that MODREP requires a
>one-to-one match between main line and dependent tier.  If you are doing
>simple syntactic category tagging, that is easy for the %syn.  And if
>you are using the automatic MOR, this is always correct there too.  The
>big problem is that the %err line has never been properly integrated
>with the other programs and this is why you need the asterisk on the
>%mor line.
>   Javier suggests that enhancements to the MODREP program might help in
>this area. So, if you folks think that MODREP would be more useful than
>cross-tier COMBO and if you can specify proposed extensions, we will try
>to implement them.
>
>--Brian MacWhinney
>

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