confusing MOR behavior

[Melissa Sherman]

Brian,

This is not an urgent matter for me, as I can run each file individually
through MOR. I appreciate you taking time out of your vacation to reply to
my email.

I wish you and Leonid a happy holidays!

mesh



On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:

>
> Dear Melissa,
>     We have changed the format of CHAT in a couple of ways recently
> that are sure to mess up the use of SALTIN.  Right now, I am on
> vacation in Borneo and Leonid is also on vacation until just after
> Christmas.  So,  I am afraid that we will not be able to fix SALTIN for
> a week or two.  If this is urgent, you could send me the files and
> perhaps I could work on them.
>
> --Brian
>
> On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:16 PM, Melissa Sherman wrote:
>
> >
> > 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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