On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 03:51:42PM +0000, Francis Tyers wrote:
> El dt 05 de 07 de 2011 a les 17:42 +0200, en/na Keld Jørn Simonsen va
> escriure:
> > On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 03:24:09PM +0000, Francis Tyers wrote:
> > > El dt 05 de 07 de 2011 a les 16:49 +0200, en/na Mikel Forcada va
> > > escriure:
> > > > Hi there,
> > > > > I would like to attach attributes to lemmas. Only a few but maybe 
> > > > > there
> > > > > could be more, so a kind of introducing an attribute name would be 
> > > > > nice,
> > > > > instead of having a predefined set of attribute names..
> > > > Lemmas as such aren't represented as such in Apertium dictionaries. 
> > > > They 
> > > > are part of the lexical forms (one could say that the lemma is the 
> > > > material from the beginning of the lexical form up to where the first 
> > > > part-of-speech tag appears. For instance, for surface form "thought" an 
> > > > English dictionary would derive the lexical forms "thought<n><sg>" and 
> > > > "think<vblex>...". The lemmas would then be "thought" and "think". 
> > > > There 
> > > > is a attribute lm="...." in some entries, but it is optional.
> > > > > I believe there are already lemma attributes, such as the word class 
> > > > > of
> > > > > the lemma: noun, verb, adjective, adverb etc.
> > > > Not for lemmas. Lemma information is encoded either as the content of 
> > > > the element (see above). Part of speech as well as other morphological 
> > > > information is encoded as attributes of the <s> (symbol element).
> > > > > what I have in mind is to attach data from wordnet, such as sense,
> > > > > hypernym, hyponum, holonym, meromnym, and also combine it with the
> > > > > Swedish SALDO attributes of father and mother relations.
> > > > >
> > > > > The idea is then to choose a sense of a homonym based on the shortest
> > > > > distance to maybe the previous and following five words.
> > > 
> > > Which language pair(s) are you working with ? Is it really necessary ? 
> > 
> > sv-da. I cannot get further with my work without such features - at least 
> > in a
> > rudymentary form.
> > 
> > 
> > I think it would be fun. Anyway there are of cause problems with
> > homonyms in swedish and danish that could be better solved with more
> > intelligent selection machinery.
> > 
> > I have about 40000 new swedish words that I have used quite some time on
> > and they should not damage the already existing work.
> 
> In any case if you do mass addition you're probably going to damage what
> is there. 

Why? Apart for making the collection bigger and thus slowing down the
system. If there are no conflicts then there is no harm - in a
mathematical sense.

> > > > > a lemma may have more than one sense. Eg 'nut' may mean several things
> > > > > such as the offspring of a plant, nuts and bolts, and testicles.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this easy to do? How do I do it?
> > > > I think the attribute lm="...." could be stretched a bit to have any 
> > > > value, which could be used to identify the lemma in another structure 
> > > > which could contain all of these (for instance, giving an XPath to 
> > > > another XML file containing all the desired information).
> > > > 
> > > > Perhaps it would be better to have some kind of new general purpose 
> > > > attribute that could be used to attach *standoff* information of this 
> > > > kind to any entry <e>.
> > > 
> > > I think that might be nice... also for, for example verb valency or
> > > other features that we don't necessarily want to represent with tags.
> > 
> > But maybe we can just do it with tags. Is it possible to add arbitrary
> > tags?
> 
> Yes it is possible to add arbitrary tags.
> 
> > > > Fran is working on lexical selection and I'm sure his opinion would be 
> > > > interesting to read!
> > > 
> > > Could also use the attribute 'c' for comment. 
> > 
> > I think it would be misleading to call it a comment. Maybe <a> -
> > attribute?
> 
> Sure, but to start with you can use c="" and later if you have good
> results we can add a="" to the DTD. 
> 
> > > 
> > > in the instance that a word has the same lemma/pos/gender and different
> > > paradigms/declensions, I use a pseudo lemma, for example from Russian:
> > > 
> > >     <e lm="????????"><i>????????</i><par n="????????__n_m_nn"/></e>
> > >     <e lm="????????"><p><l>????????</l><r>????????:1</r></p><par
> > > n="??????__n_m_aa"/></e>
> > 
> > I would then still need a way to disambiguate and chose the right one.
> 
> Yep, but it's a tiny part of the problem. A more sensible place to start
> would be adding compounding support, like nn-nb and af-nl have.

I am at this time more interesed in saving the several weeks of work I
have already done, and go forward with what I already have planned
on integrating SALDO data.

best regards
keld

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