[Attempto] Use of Prefixes with the Large Lexicon

[Tobias Kuhn]

You have to rebuild ape.exe after changing clex_lexicon.pl. Maybe that's 
the problem.

Cheers,
Tobias


On 08/10/2010 05:31 PM, Chris Spencer wrote:
> I'm using the large lexicon, but I'm noticing that APE still requires
> I explicitly tag most nouns and verbs with a prefix.
>
> For example, this fails to understand that "ostrich" is a noun, even
> though the lexicon only lists it as a noun.
>
> ./ape.exe -text "An ostrich does not fly." -cparaphrase
>
>      <message
> 	importance="error"
> 	type="word"
> 	sentence="1"
> 	token=""
> 	value="ostrich"
> 	repair="Use the prefix n:, v:, a: or p:."/>
>
> And of course this runs fine:
>
> ./ape.exe -text "An n:ostrich does not fly." -cparaphrase
>
>    <paraphrase>There is an n:ostrich X1.
> It is false that the n:ostrich X1 flies.</paraphrase>
>
> Why is APE requiring I specify a prefix for certain words, even though
> they unambiguously exist in the lexicon?
>
> Regards,
> Chris
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