Notes on computational linguistics.pdf - UCLA Department of ...

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This pretty printer is better than nothing, but really, we can do better!
This is the kind of stuff people had to look at when computers wrote their output to electric typewriters.
Wecandomuchbetternow.
(30) There are various graphical tools that can present your tree in a much more readable format. I will
describe using the Tcl/Tk interface which sicstus provides, but I also have tools for drawing trees from
prolog through xfig, dot, TeX, and some others.
| ?- [tdp,g3,wish_tree].
Yes
| ?- ([titus,and,lavinia,and,the,penguins,praise,most,songs] ?˜ [ip]@[T]),wish_tree(T).
T = ip/[dp(1,p,nom)/[dp(3,s,nom)/[titus/[]],coord(dp(_A,p,nom))/[and/[],dp(_A,p,nom)/[dp(...)/[...],coord(...)/[...|...]]]],i1(1,p)/[i0/[],vp(1,p)/[v1(1,p)/[v0(...)/[..
Yes
But what appears on your screen will be something like this:
Not the Mona Lisa, but this is only week 4. Notice that with this tool, carefully inspecting the trees
becomesmuchlesstedious!
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