[Corpora-List] Charniak parser

[Nitin Madnani]

I wrote a little patch to enable charniak parser to be compiled on modern
linux distributions. It's available from my web page.

On Wednesday, August 17, 2011, Pawel Mazur <pawel.mazur at mq.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mac OS X you can compile the Charniak parser (parser05Aug16) using
gcc/g++ v. 4.2.1 (the default one in my installation of OS X 10.6.8).
> You only need to add
> #include "GotIter.h"
> to parser05Aug16/PARSE/BchartSm.C
> To compile the content of the TRAIN directory, you need to change a part
of the line 310 in rCounts.C from
> (int)sbrk(0)
> to
> (long)sbrk(0)
>
>
> In the case of the Charniak-Johnson reranking parser
(reranking-parserAug06) you need to:
> -  change the line 128 of first-stage/PARSE/parseIn.C from
> int id = (int)arg;
> to
> int id = (long)arg;
> - run 'make clean' before 'make' to recompile
second-stage/programs/features/best-parses
>
> You can also rename features.gz to features.gz.Z and
cvlm-l1c10P1-weights.gz to cvlm-l1c10P1-weights.gz.Z and make the relevant
changes in parse.sh;
> without this step the parser is working, but zcat complains about missing
gz.Z files; doing this step stopped the messages to appear.
> Alternatively, you can use gzcat instead of zcat in Makefiles.
>
> I thank Brett Powley for these hints.
>
> regards,
> Pawel
>
>
>
>
> On 22/06/2010, at 8:38 PM, Leon Derczynski wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Problem solved - using gcc/g++ 3.3 (and associated stdlib), the parser
compiles.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>>
>> Leon
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Charniak parser
>> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:15:27 +0200
>> From: Roman Klinger <roman.klinger at scai.fraunhofer.de>
>> To: Leon Derczynski <L.Derczynski at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
>> References: <4C20FD0B.60206 at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 06/22/2010 08:12 PM, Leon Derczynski wrote:
>>> Thank you for your answer! I've replied directly as I'm not sure the
list is the right place to
>>> discuss compilation issues, I may be wrong.
>>
>> Perhaps not in detail, but others may be interested. We can post the
>> solution if we get one.
>>
>> Which GCC version are you using? I used 3.3. Got similar errors with 4.*.
>>
>> I am not a C expert, therefore I am not sure if this is your problem,
>> but give it a try :-).
>>
>> Best,
>> Roman
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I am also using this version (from
http://bllip.cs.brown.edu/download/reranking-parserAug06.tar.gz);
>>> my C++ skill ranks between very low and zero. I've had problems with
declarations likely just
>>> missing from my path, which I can fix, and manifest as:
>>>
>>> BchartSm.C: In member function ‘double Bchart::pHypgt(const
std::string&, int)’:
>>> BchartSm.C:554: error: ‘strpbrk’ was not declared in this scope
>>> make[1]: *** [BchartSm.o] Error 1
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/leon/charniak/reranking-parser/first-stage/PARSE'
>>>
>>> However, after adding include lines for stdlib.h and string.h to
BchartSm.C, I am stumped by:
>>>
>>> BchartSm.C: In member function ‘double Bchart::pHypgt(const
std::string&, int)’:
>>> BchartSm.C:555: error: invalid conversion from ‘const char*’ to ‘char*’
>>> make[1]: *** [BchartSm.o] Error 1
>>>
>>> It really seems as though I have some other misconfiguration, if you
have compiled the same code
>>> without issues. If you have any clue as to what it may be, I would be
extremely grateful to hear it.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>>
>>> Leon
>>>
>>> ----------
>>>
>>> Hi Leon,
>>> On 06/22/2010 07:26 PM, Leon Derczynski wrote:
>>>> I am looking for a working version of the Charniak parser.
>>>
>>> You mean the reranking parser published on
http://bllip.cs.brown.edu/resources.shtml right?
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have scoured a few sites, tried and
>>>> failed to build a few versions from the web and applied various
patches, without much success.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>
>>>> Can anybody help?
>>>
>>> I am using this parser, without any problems. Therefore, it is difficult
to guess, what your problem
>>> is. Compilation worked without any issues.
>>>
>>> Could you specify what does not work for you?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Roman
>>
>>
>> --
>> Roman Klinger
>> Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI)
>> Department of Bioinformatics
>> Schloss Birlinghoven
>> D-53754 Sankt Augustin
>> Tel.: +49-2241-14-2360
>> Fax.: +49-2241-14-4-2360
>> email: roman.klinger at scai.fhg.de
>> http://www.scai.fraunhofer.de/klinger.html
>>
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