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This page presents user-supplied information, hence may be inaccurate in some details, or not necessarily reflect use patterns anticipated by the itsdb developers. This page was initiated by FrancisBond; please feel free to make additions or corrections as you see fit. However, before revising this page, one should be reasonably confident of the information given being correct.

Overview

The itsdb environment is a tool for grammar and system profiling and treebanking. Some people find its name hard to pronounce, especially novice users. It is meant to be pronounced as though it were written tee ess dee bee plus plus. To some, it is also known as The Fine System, although this nicknaming is discouraged by the itsdb developers.

There is a [http://lists.delph-in.net/archive/itsdb/ mailing list] and a [wiki:ItsdbWishlist wish list].

The current best citation for this is:

Oepen Stephan, Flickinger Daniel (1998) Towards systematic grammar profiling. Test suite technology ten years after. Journal of Computer Speech and Language 12 (4) (Special Issue on Evaluation):411 – 436

Useful documentation for people looking to manipulate the 'raw' profiles (i.e. tsdb(1) databases) without the GUI (but not using cut and grep) can be found in the [http://www.delph-in.net/tsnlp/ftp/manual/volume2.ps.gz TSNLP User Manual (Volume 2)].

Installation

The automated installation procedure explained on the LkbInstallation page includes itsdb. To invoke itsdb if you've installed the system this way:

   M-x lkb RET
   M-x itsdb RET

* ItsdbProfileManipulation

* ItsdbProfiling

• - ItsdbDistributedProcessing

* ItsdbTreebanking

* [wiki:ItsdbBatch Batch Processing]

* ItsdbCustomization

* ItsdbReference

* ItsdbTroubleshooting

Debugging Aids

MRS Checking

If your profile has MRSs scored, you can check whether they scope or not by setting the switch Options | Result Filter | Mrs Scoping and then browsing the results: Browse | Results. Helpful diagnostic messages should be ouptut in the *common-lisp* buffer.

Note, if you have too many results stored, then this will be either very slow, or crash. You should only really do it for profiles with 1 or 2 results per item.

Misc

There is a macro for writing itsdb in the wiki: itsdb.