[Lexicog] Re: Toolbox parsing bug

[langwijmijij]

Nick Thieberger suggested a solution (that the character was defined as a digraph in the language encodings and that was leading to problems). ny wasn't defined but ng was; removing ng solved the ny problem but has now led to ng- prefixes not showing up with their glosses, which is differently odd. This implies to me that there's something in the language encodings that isn't being parsed correctly. 

I tried Fieldworks, but life is too short to wait more than 5 seconds for each parse (with an average of 5+ morphemes per verb, I can interlinearise by hand at more than double that speed). The parser is incredibly slow, even on a recent machine with ample memory. It also crashed frequently (took the best part of a day just to import the toolbox lexicon). And it still had most of the difficulties that toolbox has for this language (lenition causing many homophonous forms, significant variation in affix forms which are ameliorated by word formulas but not solved, etc).
Claire 

--- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, "Richard Gravina" <Richard-Sue_Gravina at ...> wrote:
>
> I don’t have an answer to this, but have you considered moving up to Fieldworks? It has superseded Toolbox and has superior parsing abilities.
> 
> Richard 
> 
> From: langwijmijij 
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 3:32 PM
> To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com 
> Subject: [Lexicog] Toolbox parsing bug
> 
>   
> HI everyone,
> I have an interesting toolbox bug (running on OSX through Crossover). The interlinear parser seems to think that the sequence ny introduces a morpheme boundary. For example, the (Bardi) word nyoonoo 'there' is parsed as ny -oon, even though nyoon exists as a word in the lexicon. Has anyone come across a similar issue (ideally with a fix??)
> Thanks, and Happy New Year to all,
> Claire
>




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