Tutorial on Ace and Agree from SaarlandTop 2013
ACE
For most people: go to the ACE website and download ACE from one of the links there (rather than checking it out from subversion
Liling: ACE is not on the FrontPage
Woodley: someone should add that with a link to AceTop
You need some kind of linux on your machine to use ACE, but Glenn’s software may be more interesting for Windows users since it works on Windows directly
ACE only works on 64 bit.
Precompiled grammars (ERG 1212/1111) are available for download on the website.
Options -1Tf
1: only one result
T: no derivation tree: only MRS
Options are documented on the wiki:
http://moin.delph-in.net/AceOptions
command:
parse sentence and print the mrs
$ ace-0.9.16/ace -g erg-1212-x86-64-0.9.16.dat -1Tf
(on Mac sentences should be written in the file)
generate from mrs
$ ./ace -g <grammar.dat> -e [input.mrs]
parse sentence and pipe the result mrs to the generator
$ ace-0.9.16/ace -g erg-1212-x86-64-0.9.16.dat -1Tf | ace-0.9.16/ace -g erg-1212-x86-64-0.9.16.dat -e
COMPILING grammar
$ ./ace -G <compiled_grammar_file.dat> -g <path to erg/ace/config.tdl>
e.g.
$ ./ace -G erg.dat -g ~/logon/ling/terg/ace/config.tdl
file ace/config.tdl contains the grammar confgiurations (matrix-based grammars might share a lot of these configurations)
ACE working with [incr tsdb()]
use the cpu defintion :terg+tnt/ace in $LOGONROOT/dot.tsdbrc
<CL prompt> : (tsdb :cpu :terg+tnt/ace :file t)
Call Common LISP prompt in LOGON tree:
cd $LOGONROOT
logon –tty
Options required for ACE CPU in $LOGONROOT/dot.tsdbrc:
:options (list “-t” “-g” “erg.dat”)
Instead of “erg.dat” you can use other grammar.
To parse with ACE that is incorporated into the LOGON tree
1) Make sure CPU (tsdb :cpu :terg+tnt/ace :file t) is defined in the file $LOGONROOT/dot.tsdbrc
If not, update your LOGON tree:
cd $LOGONROOT
make update
2) Check that the following command works:
cd $LOGONROOT
answer –terg
If it does not, you will have to compile the grammar:
answer –terg –compile
Now the command should work:
answer –terg
3) Parse with ACE
$LOGONROOT/parse –terg+tnt/ace –count 4 csli
The profile is in $LOGONROOT/lingo/lkb/src/tsdb/home/erg/trunk/csli/13-08-01/ace/
File “result” contains both derivation tree and MRS for each sentence.
To browse only MRS, execute:
tsdb -home . -query ‘select mrs’
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~/ace-0.9.16$ ace -g erg-1212-x86-64-0.9.16.dat -1Tf
The program ‘ace’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install libace-perl
If you see the above error, DO NOT install libace-perl, use “$ ./ace “ to invoke the compiled binary in and not from the global environment, e.g.
~/ace-0.9.16$ ./ace -g erg-1212-x86-64-0.9.16.dat -1Tf “this is a foo bar sentence.”
~/ace-0.9.16$ echo “this is a foo bar sentence.” | ./ace -g erg-1212-x86-64-0.9.16.dat -1Tf
If anyone is interested to call ACE from python scripts, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alvations/NLTK_cheatsheet#Getting_HPSG_parses_from_ACE
ACE has some options in generation that PET does not support, e.g. idiom check in ERG
You are not going to win in memory usage if you use ACE instead of PET.
ACE does not have GUI but it can talk to LkbLui (http://moin.delph-in.net/LkbLui), e.g. you can bring up chart browser.
AGREE
Prerequisites - .NET 4.5 (Windows)
Currently, only an ERG demonstration console program is available on that site. I will be demonstrating a WPF (graphical) client and I can give you these binaries if you want to be an early adopter
Agree Concepts - Three object types:
Functor - Monad - Identity
Last update: 2023-06-30 by Glenn Slayden [edit]