web tool help

Mon Jul 28 17:32:56 UTC 2008

> I doubt very much that anyone would have a need to modify xfst or
> lexc since they are general purpose tools.

Thanks for your point, Bill. Here's a couple of examples where it's interesting (and sometimes unavoidable) to modify a computer program (even an excellent one, btw):
- embedding a chunk of code that can output HTML out-of-the box (I see a couple of interesting candidate tags that could be use, from the more to the less structured: <html>, <body>, <table>, <pre>);
- embedding a DTD/XML/XSL parser (the sky is the limit).

I don't know xfst enough to say whether it has any of those features already, but:
a) if it does, then one part of Shannon's needs are already met;
b) if it doesn't, then those features would allow xfst to output its results to:
   * any Web app (CGI/PHP...) or Web browser (example 1);
   * any other application has an "import" function (example 2).

Eric

William J Poser a écrit :
>> 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
>   
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