confusing MOR behavior

[Melissa Sherman]

Hi-

I am working with a group of children's transcripts and using MOR and
POST from the CLAN toolkit. Everything was working wonderfully until
MOR decided to give me a segmentation fault during batch processing
one day. Here is what I try to accomplish:

I first have transcripts in the SALT format. I convert these to UTF8
and then use SALTIN to change them to CHAT format. This step has
always worked fine for me with a batch processing. (saltin *.slt)

At this point, I can run MOR on all the files (mor +l"lex" *.cha) and
all files will process. However, if I run CHECK on the .cha files, I
find errors.

My next step is to clean the files using my own script. After they are
cleaned, they pass through CHECK without any errors.

Now comes the strange part. When I run MOR on all the cleaned files, I
get a segmentation fault 258 files through, out of 302. If I run each
cleaned file through MOR individually, though, they all process
without any errors.

This puzzles me because it appears that the fault lies within my
cleaning script, but I am not sure what types of things I could
correct because CHECK is not returning any errors. I also have a
couple hundred (I like batch processing) other transcripts in a few
corpora that are still batch processing completely, while using the
same scripts.

We use the linux version of CLAN. The segmentation fault error that I
recieve follows. This example is trying to compile an unknown word
list using the +xl flag.
(after 258 files)
>From file <h10633.cln> to file <b10135.ul2.cex>
Using sf-rule: /users/mesh/lang_imp/lex/english/sf.cut.
Using ex-rule: /users/mesh/lang_imp/lex/english/ex.cut.
Using a-rules: /users/mesh/lang_imp/lex/english/ar.cut.
Segmentation fault

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Melissa Sherman
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