Re: [agtk-devel] tree api for treebanks only?

[Steven B. <sb...@cs...>]

Matthias,

> In short, the tree api is not general purpose.  It assumes ag structure
> generated by treebank loader, which has "syn", "pos" and "wrd" type
> annotations.  It would ignore other types of annotations.

This is correct, however as you've correctly understood from the Cotton &
Bird paper, we have a much broader vision here.  We'd like our AG library
to support the creation and manipulation of trees, regardless of their
linguistic interpretation.

I think it would be relatively straightforward to create a general purpose
version of this code where the types are simply parameters that get passed
through the interface.  You're very welcome to contribute code, and/or
patches.  If you want to pursue this, we can flesh out more of the details
on this list.

-Steven

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