Or <pl>=<number:pl> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 13:58 Scoop Gracie <scoopgra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That sounds like a great idea to me. Maybe <n> could even become <pos:n>? > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 13:51 Tanmai Khanna <khanna.tan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> As part of the project to eliminate trimming, I had to come up with a way >> to include the surface form in the lexical unit and hence modifying the >> apertium stream format. To do this I would have to modify the parsers of >> every program in the pipeline, and if that has to happen, we discussed on >> the IRC that *it might be a good idea to modify the stream in such a way >> that we can include an arbitrary amount of information in a lexical unit, >> and each program can use whatever information they need.* >> >> The current information in the lexical unit would be primary information, >> and then we would have optional secondary information which could contain >> the surface form, but also literally anything you can think of (case, >> sentiment, pragmatic info, etc.). This would open up a lot of possibilities >> for each program, and it would strengthen the apertium stream format >> considerably. >> >> We discussed several possible syntax for this new stream format, and the >> one that seems the best is something like this: >> >> ^potato<n><pl><case:aa><sf:potatoes><other-prefix:other-value>/patata<n><f><pl><more:other>$ >> >> This doesn't mess with the current stream format too much. The number of >> tags is already arbitrary so that helps. The secondary tags contain a ":" >> that would help distinguish them from primary tags. >> >> To implement this a modification would still be needed to all the parsers >> but the benefits far outweigh the amount of work needed to pull this off. >> >> Since this would be a major fundamental change to Apertium, I request you >> all to contribute with your views, any pros, cons, suggestions - to the >> idea, to the syntax, anything. >> >> Thanks and Regards, >> Tanmai Khanna >> >> -- >> *Khanna, Tanmai* >> _______________________________________________ >> Apertium-stuff mailing list >> Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff >> >
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