[Attempto] Categories in the ACE lexicon

[Jörg Preisendörfer]

Dear Tobias,

thx for the prompt reply!

The ACE lexicon specification actually doesn't say anything about the 
rational of the mnemonics of 'finsg' and 'infpl'. In particular, 'finsg' 
is pretty much the only mnemocode in the lexcicon specification that 
doesn't have its roots addressed directly or alluded to in the text of 
the specification.

Of course, I can come up with a guess about how 'fin' and 'inf' differ, 
but I think it would be better to be clear about the circumscription of 
the two classes.

To see why I'm interested in finding out about the intentions of those 
mnemonics:

The lexicon specification quietly assumes a certain theory of lexical 
classes which is not made explicit (e.g. by naming a certain theory), at 
least not in the specification document. This leads to the specification 
not being self-contained.

Presumably the specific theory employed for ACE holds no surprises, but 
I'd still prefer someone involved saying something like "25 years ago, 
we arrived at that mnemonics because of such and such reasons" rather 
than guessing myself.

Pls kindly bear with me in being picky about such aspects of the 
documentation. :-) This is actually a relative simple case; there are 
more ambiguities in the ACE Syntax Report which I will try to sort out next.

Thx again,

-- J.






Am 09.03.22 um 06:53 schrieb Tobias Kuhn:
> Dear Jörg,
> 
> The documentation page of the lexicon format can be found here: 
> http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/docs/ace_lexicon.html
> 
> I hope that helps.
> 
> Regards,
> Tobias
> 
> 
> On 08.03.22 18:08, Jörg Preisendörfer wrote:
>>
>>
>> Happy Women's Day everybody,
>>
>> in wrapping my head around ACE, some questions occured to me which I'd 
>> like to sort out step by step.
>>
>> I am aware that the answers in many cases will be entirely obvious for 
>> people who were involved in the development of ACE or even for every 
>> linguist of some sort, but I'd nevertheless prefer your answers over 
>> uninformed or informed guessing. You may want take that approach as an 
>> expression of respect. :-)
>>
>>
>> To start with a simple one, here's a question refering to the word 
>> catergories in the ACE lexicon,
>>
>> * 
>> https://github.com/Attempto/APE/blob/master/prolog/lexicon/clex_lexicon.pl 
>>
>>
>>
>> The lexicon uses the abbreviations 'finsg' and 'infpl' to mark verb 
>> categories.
>>
>> Am I assuming right that 'finsg' stands for 'finite' and 'singular' 
>> whereas 'infpl' stands for 'infinite' and 'plural'?
>>
>>
>> Thx
>>
>> -- J.
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