LogonHandon

The so-called HandOn release comprises the state of development as of early 2008, i.e. at the completion of the HandOn project on scaling up the LOGON Norwegian–English MT demonstrator.

(1) LOGON Redwoods Treebanks (Public)

The core directory lingo/redwoods/ contains the environment for semi-automated parse selection, realization ranking, and MRS re-ranking experiments, using treebanked versions of the LOGON tourism corpora. In the core installation, this directory only contains the scripts and various configuration files for such experimentation, but not the treebanks or corresponding version of the ERG. To download the complete data, execute the following:

  cd $LOGONROOT/lingo/redwoods
  svn switch http://svn.emmtee.net/extras/handon/lingo/redwoods

The SVN switch command makes a sub-directory of an SVN-controlled tree point to a different module from the same repository (i.e. it does not allow 'mixing and matching' across repositories). Please see the SVN documentation for further information.

(3) LOGON Norwegian–English Evolution Profiles (Public)

For several of the LOGON development data sets and the final test set (which only became available after completion of system development), historic [incr tsdb()] profiles (and fan-out log files) are available. These profiles document (in great detail) development progress made in the course of the original LOGON and HandOn projects. To add this data to your LOGON tree, do

  cd $LOGONROOT/uio/evolution
  svn switch http://svn.emmtee.net/extras/handon/uio/evolution

To analyze the evolution of the LOGON Norwegian–English instantiation, point [incr tsdb()] to uio/evolution/ as its datatabase directory and experiment with the commands in its Evolution menu.

(6) XLE LFG System (Restricted)

For the full Norwegian–English system (but not other language pairs), a copy of the proprietary XLE software is required. If your site holds a valid license, the following command will agument the core LOGON tree with the XLE software:

  cd $LOGONROOT/parc/xle
  svn switch http://logon.emmtee.net/extras/handon/parc/xle

(7) Norwegian–English Dictionary (Restricted)

The LOGON project licensed Norsk–Engelsk Stor Ordbok from Kunnskapsforlaget for use in the project. For the remaining duration of the LOGON project proper, members of the original consortium can install a copy of the XML files for the dictionary as follows:

  cd $LOGONROOT/kf
  svn switch http://logon.emmtee.net/extras/handon/kf .

This dictionary was used for the Norwegian–English demonstrator to auto-generate transfer rules for open-class words with predictable properties, mostly nouns and adjectives. The licensing agreement with Kunnskapsforlaget (probably) does not allow public distribution of these derived transfer rules, hence they are not part of the core LOGON tree. To re-generate these transfer rules, once you have successfully installed the dictionary, execute

  cd $LOGONROOT/uio/noen
  ./trag --kf

This process should take a little while (thirty minutes to two hours, maybe, depending on the type of machine that you have available). It should result in new files kf.a.mtr, kf.n.mtr, and kf.nn.mtr, containing on the order of 15,000 transfer rules.