On 24 July 2010 14:27, Keld Simonsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:15:09PM +0200, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:
>> 2010/7/11 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email protected]>:
>> > 2010/7/11 Jimmy O'Regan <[email protected]>:
>> >> The attached patch adds a new mechanism to transfer rules: <exception>
>> >
>> > This has been on my wishlist for a while =D
>> >
>> >> Exception can contain a single <test> -- if the test evaluates to
>> >> 'true', the current rule is ignored, and the last applicable rule is
>> >> used instead (the implication being that it should only be used in
>> >> rules whose <pattern> contains more than one <pattern-item>).
>
> I was thinking about something like this, for Danish et. al.
> Adding many more words to a monodix would potentially introduce
> worse translations for some homonyms. I would like to rule out new
> words where a surface form is a homonym to an already existing surface form.
>
> That is: I would search thru all surface forms of the new lemmas
> and compare them with the existing surface forms, and if a
> homonym is found, I would mark the new lemma with an exception for only the
> surface form in question that is should not be used, while all the other
> new surface forms will be ok.
>
> Can this be done with what you are suggesting, or with some other means?

You seem to be talking about lexical selection, so no. Francis is
working on a rule-based lexical selection tool, which might do what
you want; also, Sonja (one of the GSoC students) is working on a tool
for multiwords which might be used to eliminate many ambiguities (in
English, 'bus' and 'stop' are both somewhat ambiguous, but 'bus stop'
is not).

-- 
<Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
<Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.

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