TrEd-bridge

Program to act as a bridge between TrEd treebank-editor and Alpino parser.

warning!

Do not use the CHAT/Alpino editor on files already edited in TrEd. This is currently unsupported, and the editor will fail to launch. Open a file, use the CHAT/Alpino editor if necesarry and THEN continue editing in TrEd. This will be fixed soon.

Installing

• In Tred, select Setup -> Manage Extensions...
• In the menu, uncheck any Alpino mode for Tred extensions currently enabled
• Select Edit Repositories
• Select Add
• For Repository URL, enter http://dhstatic.hum.uu.nl/tred/extensions/. Click OK. Close this menu
• Select Get New Extensions. A few warnings errors concerning other Tred Extensions may pop up. Select the first option (skip) for each of these
• In the window Install New Extensions, search for 'Alpino' and check the 'install' checkbox for this extension, and select Install Selected
• In Manage Extensions menu, enable the Alpino package you just installed
• Quit and restart Tred once to reload the extension
• You are now ready to use the extension

Building distributable

Run the scrip build.sh to build a new distribution in ./dist.

Updating

• In Tred, select Setup -> Manage Extensions...
• In the menu select Check Updates
• If no entires are displayed here, there are no updates available
• Check the box for the Alpino Plus extensions
• Select Install Selected
• Close the menu and restart TrEd

Usage

This extension adds a single macro: Launch CHAT/Alpino Editor. This program takes the file currently open in TrEd as input, and allows editing of utterance, sentence, CHAT-annotations and Alpino input. After editing, click Save & Exit to automatically return to TrEd.