[Lexicog] Re: Toolbox parsing bug

[Mike Maxwell]

On 1/4/2012 12:06 PM, langwijmijij wrote:
> 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.

Odd, I haven't heard people complain about FLEx being slow lately. 
Which version of FLEx were you using, and which parser (XAmple or Hermit 
Crab)?

 > 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).

I assume the homophonous forms can be disambiguated by part of speech of 
the base, or by position wrt the inflectional affix template, right? 
(And maybe some by their morphosyntactic properties, e.g. incompatible 
features where you have multiple exponence.)  Did you assign those 
properties to the affixes?  (FLEx of course does not use word formulas, 
although the notion of an affix template is conceptually similar.)

> It also crashed frequently (took the best part of a day just to
> import the toolbox lexicon).

The difficulty in importing Toolbox lexicons has traditionally (I
haven't tried it lately) been that the Toolbox lexicons have too many
errors (missing fields, fields which are ordered wrong, data in the 
wrong field, and so forth).  I wouldn't be surprised if it took awhile 
to straighten those things out.  Did you use the "Import Wizard" 
described here:
    http://fieldworks.sil.org/flex/lexicon/import-export/
-- 
	Mike Maxwell
	maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
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	one that has the capacity to study itself."
         --Stephen Eastmond


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