MOR

[Brian MacWhinney]

On 9/24/03 10:48 AM, "Anna Gudmundson" <anna.gudmundson at fraita.su.se> wrote:

> I've tried to run the italian MOR program on our transcribed files, but the
> final result includes many unknown words tagged with the questionmark "?".
> These words include very common words lika "madre" and "città" that actually
> already exist in the predifined lex file resulting from the italian MOR
> program. 

Dear Anna,
  When building the Italian MOR, I focused mostly on verbs and sort of left
nouns to the last.  Unfortunately, I never quite finished setting up test
files for nouns.  In particular, the problem with madre is that I have a
feature called [c b] which I assign to "bare" stems before putting on the
final vowel of the noun.  If that feature doesn't get removed, the noun will
not come out.  Anyway, to make a long story short, I will try to fix this
tomorrow and put up a new version, but the nouns will probably need more
fixing than this.  So, either you might want to learn how the allo rules
work, particularly the small set for nouns, or else wait until I find time
perhaps in the middle of October to work on this all properly.

--Brian