[Attempto] Use of Prefixes with the Large Lexicon

[Chris Spencer]

Ah, yes, I had to recompile APE. Thanks for the clarification.

Chris

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Kaarel Kaljurand <kaljurand at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 17:31, Chris Spencer <chrisspen at gmail.com> 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:."/>
>
> In my case it works as expected:
>
> $ ./ape.exe -text "An ostrich does not fly." -cparaphrase
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <apeResult>
>  <duration tokenizer="0.009" parser="0.010" refres="0.000"/>
>  <paraphrase>There is an ostrich X1.
> It is false that the ostrich X1 flies.</paraphrase>
>  <messages/>
> </apeResult>
>
>
> Did you recompile APE after replacing the lexicon file?
>
>
> The download page says:
>
> ""You just have to replace the file `lexicon/clex_lexicon.pl' of the
> APE package by `clex_lexicon.pl' contained in this archive.""
>
> It should be actually added there that recompilation is also
> needed in order to update the lexicon that is built into ape.exe.
>
> --
> kaarel
>