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A program for annotation in the Penn Treebank format
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Question about hash-script #73

Open diertani opened 10 years ago

diertani commented 10 years ago

This is not a problem, just a question from sheer curiosity. The script that alerts me to changes in the tokens doesn't alert me to changes if I split a sentence token from the front, but does if I do from the back. What's the difference, from the perspective of the script?

aecay commented 10 years ago

It's not supposed to alert you in either case; token split/join operations are not supposed to affect it. So this is a problem. What is the difference between splitting "from the front" vs. "from the back"?

diertani commented 10 years ago

Ah! Well, in that case I'm glad I asked!

The difference is: if I have

(XP (YP) (ZP))

and I remove YP into a new root token, I don't get the message the next time I save, but if I move out ZP, I do. I also get it if I demote a root-level token to the status of a consituent in another token, from either direction, and if I combine two tokens into a single token, but not if I combine that new token with another token.

aecay commented 10 years ago

That's very odd...the result is the same in both cases isn't it:

(XP (YP))
(WP (ZP))

I'll have to look into and fix this...

diertani commented 10 years ago

Also, it seems to be the case that once I've experimentally combined tokens, it gives me the error message when I remove constituents from either direction.

diertani commented 10 years ago

Yeah, the result is the same...

diertani commented 10 years ago

...and also if I delete a spurious XP created through experimentation, it gives me the error message even though in that case the text has not changed at all.