[Attempto] No DRSXML for "John likes Mary." in ACE 6.5?

[Tobias Kuhn]

Hi Joshua,

Ok. We can reproduce this. It's an APE bug and we are working on it. We have been somehow in a hurry 
and did not test the OWL XML translation extensively. Thanks for reporting it and sorry for the 
inconvenience.


Tobias


Joshua TAYLOR wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm updating some code to handle the new named proper names (among
> other things) in the 6.5 release. For the simple sentence "John likes
> Mary." I can get the DRS from the webclient:
> 
> [A]
> predicate(A, like, named(John), named(Mary))-1/2
> 
> but can't generate DRSXML (after selecting the DRSXML checkbox, no
> DRSXML is presented). Calling the webservice directly (via a Lisp
> binding) shows that the drsxml element in the apeResult is empty,
> although other formats (at least drs) still work:
> 
> CL-USER 27 > (invoke-ape-webservice :text "John likes Mary." :cdrs t :cdrsxml t)
> "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
> 
> <apeResult>
>   <duration tokenizer=\"0.000\" parser=\"0.010\" refres=\"0.000\"/>
>   <drs>drs([A], [predicate(A, like, named('John'), named('Mary'))-1/2])</drs>
>   <drsxml></drsxml>
>   <messages/>
> </apeResult>
> 
> "
> 
> For other sentences, though, I can still get drsxml, e.g., for "John
> should eat.":
> 
> CL-USER 28 > (invoke-ape-webservice :text "John should eat." :cdrs t :cdrsxml t)
> "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
> 
> <apeResult>
>   <duration tokenizer=\"0.010\" parser=\"0.000\" refres=\"0.000\"/>
>   <drs>drs([], [should(drs([A], [predicate(A, eat, named('John'))-1/3]))])</drs>
>   <drsxml>&lt;?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?&gt;
> 
> &lt;DRS domain=\"\"&gt;
>   &lt;Recommendation&gt;
>     &lt;DRS domain=\"A\"&gt;
>       &lt;predicate ref=\"A\" verb=\"eat\" subj=\"named(John)\"
> sentid=\"1\" tokid=\"3\"/&gt;
>     &lt;/DRS&gt;
>   &lt;/Recommendation&gt;
> &lt;/DRS&gt;</drsxml>
>   <messages/>
> </apeResult>
> 
> "
> 
> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, //JT
>