I ran the 0.4.2 version of the program with the data distributed in the archive. The program crashed when I ran it on English with the flags set to non-proj and 2nd order.
My machine is a Mac with a PowerPC microprocessor and the java version is "1.5.0_06"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-112)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_06-64, mixed mode, sharing)
The three other configurations are working fine: (proj, 1st order), (proj, 2nd order), and (non-proj, 1st order)
Here is the printout:
$ java -classpath "output/classes:lib/trove.jar" -Xmx1800m mstparser.DependencyParser train train-file:data/train.lab model-name:dep.model test test-file:data/test.lab output-file:out.txt eval gold-file:data/test.lab format:MST decode-type:non-proj order:2
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FLAGS
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train-file: data/train.lab
test-file: data/test.lab
gold-file: data/test.lab
output-file: out.txt
model-name: dep.model
train: true
test: true
eval: true
loss-type: punc
second-order: true
training-iterations: 10
training-k: 1
decode-type: non-proj
create-forest: true
format: MST
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Creating Alphabet ... Done.
Num Features: 383871
Creating Feature Vector Instances:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199
Num Feats: 383871
Num Edge Labels: 24
About to train
Num Feats: 383871
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Iteration: 0
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Processed: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at mstparser.DependencyPipe.addCoreFeatures(DependencyPipe.java:355)
at mstparser.DependencyPipe.createFeatureVector(DependencyPipe.java:209)
at mstparser.DependencyDecoder2O.decodeNonProjective(DependencyDecoder2O.java:113)
at mstparser.DependencyParser.trainingIter(DependencyParser.java:121)
at mstparser.DependencyParser.train(DependencyParser.java:59)
at mstparser.DependencyParser.main(DependencyParser.java:284)
Logged In: YES
user_id=1519865
Originator: NO
Have the same problem under Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server, 32 and 64 bit, Java 1.5 and Java 1.6.