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 >
_______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
