Parse Ranking and Word Sense Statistics --------------------------------------- This directory contains SQL tables that are used in computing a parse ranking, as well as a word-sense probability (based on WordNet 3.0) by looking up frequency statistics from an SQL database. The database used is the SQLite database; it has been choosen because it is "administration -free" for the user, and because its license is compatbile with the current link-grammar license. Disjuncts Table --------------- The disjuncts.db database contains two tables. The first records the probability that a given disjunct will be used for some given word. This probability was measured by parsing a large quantity of text, and simply counting disjunct frequencies. This probability can be used to rank parses, or to discriminate between alternate parses for a sentence. CREATE TABLE Disjuncts ( inflected_word TEXT NOT NULL, disjunct TEXT NOT NULL, log_cond_probability FLOAT ); CREATE INDEX ifwdj ON Disjuncts (inflected_word, disjunct); The log_cond_probability field contains the value of -log_2 p(d|w) where p(d|w) is the conditional probability of seeing the disjunct d given that the (inflected) word w was already seen. Word Senses Table ----------------- The DisjunctSenses table associates word senses to (word,disjunct) pairs. The core idea behind this table is that certain word senses are used only in certain ways in sentence constructions, and that the Link Grammar disjuncts are fine-grained enough to detect such differences, if they exist. The key idea is "if they exist" -- in most cases, grammar is insufficient to discriminate between word senses in a sentence -- but in some cases, it is. The goal here is to try to provide this info, as well as possible. CREATE TABLE DisjunctSenses ( word_sense TEXT NOT NULL, inflected_word TEXT NOT NULL, disjunct TEXT NOT NULL, log_cond_probability FLOAT ); CREATE INDEX siwdj ON DisjunctSenses (inflected_word, disjunct); The log_cond_probability field records -log_2 p(s|w,d) where s==sense, w==word, d==disjunct, so that p(s|w,d) is the probability of seeing the sense s, given the word w and the disjunct d. This probability was obtained by parsing a large quantity of text, and then applying the Radu Mihalcea word-sense disambiguation algorithm to it. Notes: ------ Review the contents of opencog/nlp/wsd-post/README. That README explains the data processing pipleine in detail. In breif: Compute the marginal and conditional probabilities for the Disjuncts table by running the opencog/nlp/wsd-post/compute-mi.scm script. Merge sysnsets by running opencog/nlp/wsd-post/synset-renorm.pl Recompute the DisjunstSenses conditional probs by: opencog/nlp/wsd-post/dj-probs.pl To populate the disjunct table: first, dump the disjuncts: pg_dump -D -O -t disjuncts lexat To populate the DisjunctSenses table: Then remove the count column, and the bogus entries, via select; run the cleanup scripts. pg_dump -D -O -t djsxxxtmp lexat ============