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

[Haejoong L. <hae...@un...>]

Hi 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.

Haejoong


On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 09:59:38AM +0200, Matthias Thomae wrote:
> Hello AGTK developers,
> 
> I would like to know if the current tree implementation is specially
> tailored to Treebanks, or if it is generally usable, e.g. for semantic
> trees as well. I would like to use this for an annotation task of
> non-overlapping hierarchies of semantic annotations, taking advantage of
> the insured data integrity when using the elementary tree operations
> described in the Cotton and Bird paper.
> 
> My doubts about the genericity of the current implementation arose
> because there are hard-coded annotation types as "syn", "pos" and "wrd"
> in the kernel functions (e.g. tree_left() in tree_kernel.cc).
> 
> Regards.
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek
> Welcome to geek heaven.
> http://thinkgeek.com/sf
> _______________________________________________
> agtk-devel mailing list
> agt...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/agtk-devel