web tool help

[William J Poser]

>there is a fellow working on a non-commercial toolkit that improves on some
>of the xfst/lexc stuff. the major difference is simplified notation for
>things like reduplication, unification, long distance dependencies, free
>morpheme order, etc. The flag system seems a little combersome in the xerox
>kit, and this free kit will do away with them entirely. hopefully it will be
>available soon, though the xerox kit works remarkably well. Karttunen (one
>of the authors) says that "phonology and morphology are solved"...as more
>people work with this fst technology we'll see.

I didn't mean to suggest that the Xerox tools are perfect, but rather
that someone who has a working parser is very unlikely to need to
change anything to make them work for cgi. Certainly one can improve
notation, and of course not everyone has the same ideas as to what
sorts of rules and representations they prefer, so there is room
for variation.

Bill