Note that:

SELECT Foo IF (1* (bar baz)) ; # Also bad rule, compiler complains, heavens
fall.

F.

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Francis Tyers <[email protected]> wrote:

> Better support for subreadings is something I would like as well. This
> basically comes down to nice ways to deal with slightly ambiguous
> tokenisation.
>
> Along with that it would be good to have an optional "strict" version of
> the formalism where all tags used in the rules must be pre-defined in
> lists. e.g. this --strict option (which would later ideally become standard
> and the current system be --lazy, but quite a way in the future) would
> basically complain loudly when tag literals are used inside rules.
>
> e.g.
>
> LIST Foo = foo ;
> LIST Bar = bar ;
>
> SECTION
>
> SELECT Foo IF (1 Bar) ; # Nice rule
> SELECT Foo IF (1 ("baz")) ; # Bad rule, much wailing and gnashing of teeth
> from the compiler.
>
> Fran
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Flammie Pirinen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> 2014-11-05, Tino Didriksen sanoi:
>>
>> > If we were to make a CG-3 version 1.0 release and time it for
>> > NoDaLiDa 2015, what features, changes, additions, etc would you like
>> > to see implemented for that?
>>
>> Personal wish-list:
>>
>> * XML based format for rule syntax instead of the bracket stuff
>> * better ways to ensure consistent tagging in and out the pipeline
>> * gently nudge people to encode towards established standards like
>>   google universal poses and stanford dependency tags
>> * probably should output conll-u or whatever nowadays is easiest to
>>   evaluate against the state of the art published stuffs
>> * sub-readings should define head per case
>> * release a standard spec of what is CG-3 full with parsing grammar,
>>   test suite and all
>>
>> Some rationale:
>>
>> while XML is quite horrible, it's already used everywhere, and if we
>> need to teach people working on computational linguistics one coding
>> format, XML seems like a good enough choice at the moment and in the
>> long run.
>>
>> most of the work with cg I've needed to do so far is struggling with
>> formatting of tags and rewriting inputs and outputs to match hfst tags
>> and apertium stuffs, this is something that really should be done by
>> computer and not by humans and unreadable one-off perl scripts
>>
>> like with xml, google poses and dependencies are the standard of
>> science now, it would not make sense to even publish intrinsic
>> evaluation of your system on anything else right now, unless you want
>> to distance yourself from everyone (or the main audience) working
>> on the field
>>
>> from software engineering pov stable 1.0 to me suggests like it'd
>> require well enough documented standard than anyone can from the docs
>> reimplement it at will and all that
>>
>> > One clear goal for 1.0 is binary format backwards compatibility, so
>> > that 1.0 grammars will remain loadable. The binary format is pretty
>> > much already stable, but so far has no guarantees that old versions
>> > remain loadable.
>>
>> stability is an excellent goal but can also be substituted with
>> well-designed upwards and downwards compatibility in the format.
>>
>> --
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>> linguist doctor, free software Finnish localiser,
>> and more! <http://www.iki.fi/flammie/>
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