# fftb **URL:** https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/c/fftb/25.md [Latest](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/latest.md) · [Categories](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/categories.md) · [Tags](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/tags.md) --- ## [About the fftb category](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/about-the-fftb-category/619)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 0
--- ## [Treebanking mystery: Have parses from ACE but FFTB doesn't see/has them?](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/treebanking-mystery-have-parses-from-ace-but-fftb-doesnt-see-has-them/1049)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 29, 2024, 10:26am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/treebanking-mystery-have-parses-from-ace-but-fftb-doesnt-see-has-them/1049 "2024-05-29T10:26:04Z")
Someone please help me figure out why the following happens: I am running the following pydelphin command on a corpus: The .sh script: delphin process --options="-1 -p -y --yy-rules --max-chart-megabytes=24000 --ma… --- ## [ACE parses sentence, FFTB doesn't display a tree?](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/ace-parses-sentence-fftb-doesnt-display-a-tree/1038)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2024, 11:05am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/ace-parses-sentence-fftb-doesnt-display-a-tree/1038 "2024-04-04T11:05:35Z")
I think I’ve asked this before, but I cannot find the answer now… Suppose I have a sentence which I was using as a test sentence, and I have added a lexical rule to handle one of the words better. ACE currently parses t… --- ## [Fftb binary for OSX?](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-binary-for-osx/749)
**Author:** [@ebender](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/ebender)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-binary-for-osx/749 "2024-03-25T21:30:03Z")
I’m trying to get set up with fftb — in order to help the folks currently working on AGG-related things to use treebanking. As of Feb '21 there was no compiled version for OSX: I’m assuming that’s still true but thoug… --- ## [Updating treebanks: previously rejected items and items with "remaining ambiguity, was unresolved in gold"?](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/updating-treebanks-previously-rejected-items-and-items-with-remaining-ambiguity-was-unresolved-in-gold/1019)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/updating-treebanks-previously-rejected-items-and-items-with-remaining-ambiguity-was-unresolved-in-gold/1019 "2024-02-12T17:49:30Z")
Is there a way to update tsdb profiles in FFTB such that rejection decisions are somehow respected/carried over? As it is, everything that I reject will always appear as “remaining ambiguity, was unresolved in gold”. --- ## [Old analysis stuck somewhere?.. Can get a tree with ACE but not in FFTB](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/old-analysis-stuck-somewhere-can-get-a-tree-with-ace-but-not-in-fftb/1018)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2024, 11:11am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/old-analysis-stuck-somewhere-can-get-a-tree-with-ace-but-not-in-fftb/1018 "2024-02-06T11:11:47Z")
Preambule: I used to have an accepted analysis which included a particular lexical type that arises through the morphological interface. Suppose the lexical type was called N\_CP\*\_P-C\_LE. Then I decided to change t… --- ## [Fftb localizaion: scores output with comma decimal separator after treebank update](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-localizaion-scores-output-with-comma-decimal-separator-after-treebank-update/981)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-localizaion-scores-output-with-comma-decimal-separator-after-treebank-update/981 "2023-11-10T12:09:47Z")
On one of my computers, I was perfectly able to put the gold treebanks under tsdb/gold/ and I now see examples come up in LTDB (I cannot get the MRS displayed there but that is another matter). I do not recall any proble… --- ## [Something wrong with lexical rule sequences in YY-input?](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/something-wrong-with-lexical-rule-sequences-in-yy-input/942)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/something-wrong-with-lexical-rule-sequences-in-yy-input/942 "2023-06-26T15:33:55Z")
Some of my inputs have sequences of lexical rules in them. Very often, this is for the enclitics such as the Spanish se. For example, (5, 4, 5, \<14:23\>, 1, "agarrar" "agarrarse", 0, "vmn0000" "+pp3cn00", "vmn0000" "+p… --- ## [Unification failure in the RELS list during treebanking (and a bit of mystery)](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/unification-failure-in-the-rels-list-during-treebanking-and-a-bit-of-mystery/938)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/unification-failure-in-the-rels-list-during-treebanking-and-a-bit-of-mystery/938 "2023-06-15T17:37:39Z")
We have a bit of a mysterious situation with some (many!) items in the updated SRG treebanks which we are trying to reconcile with the old version of them after reparcing them using an updated version of the grammar. The… --- ## [Updating treebanks using fftb: messages about conflicts in the terminal](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/updating-treebanks-using-fftb-messages-about-conflicts-in-the-terminal/932)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/updating-treebanks-using-fftb-messages-about-conflicts-in-the-terminal/932 "2023-05-31T15:24:39Z")
When running fftb on an ACE-processed profile using an older version of the treebank with the --gold flag, we observe messages in the terminal which seem informative, such as: gold tree node 'aq0fs00' conflicts with 'aq… --- ## ["Gold tree is in" after fftb automatic update](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/gold-tree-is-in-after-fftb-automatic-update/898)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/gold-tree-is-in-after-fftb-automatic-update/898 "2023-02-28T21:37:09Z")
Does this picture definitely means I have found the tree which was marked as gold before, in the updated profile? It would seem so but I think I remember maybe @Dan saying that perhaps that is not 100% reliable (apol… --- ## [Summary statistics over fftb treebanks](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/summary-statistics-over-fftb-treebanks/893)
**Author:** [@ebender](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/ebender)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2023, 7:43am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/summary-statistics-over-fftb-treebanks/893 "2023-02-03T07:43:28Z")
A question from a UW treebanker: Given a treebanked profile, what is the quickest way to get summary statistics (most importantly # of items with a tree accepted). --- ## [Fftb error with "Is a constituent"](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-error-with-is-a-constituent/891)
**Author:** [@ebender](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/ebender)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-error-with-is-a-constituent/891 "2023-01-31T01:37:58Z")
Dear all, and especially @sweaglesw some Treebankers here at UW are running into an error when they have the “is a constituent” filter on. Specifically, here is the reported behavior and workaround: " When trying to sav… --- ## [FFTB: "The profile has an active tree, not updating"](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-the-profile-has-an-active-tree-not-updating/886)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-the-profile-has-an-active-tree-not-updating/886 "2023-01-12T16:50:20Z")
What does the light green category mean? Does it mean I should just accept the tree, assuming only one is remaining for the item? How is this different from the dark green items (“identical” ones)? Thanks! --- ## [FFTB treebank auto update: can I filter out identical items?](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-treebank-auto-update-can-i-filter-out-identical-items/887)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-treebank-auto-update-can-i-filter-out-identical-items/887 "2023-01-12T16:47:52Z")
Is there a command for me to create a subtreebank of items which are in the dark green category? (Identical between two grammars)? Or a list of the corresponding item ids, is that automatically obtainable? --- ## [FFTB: Non-empty and unannotated items shown to have 0 parses remaining](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-non-empty-and-unannotated-items-shown-to-have-0-parses-remaining/859)
**Author:** [@yclin](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/yclin)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-non-empty-and-unannotated-items-shown-to-have-0-parses-remaining/859 "2022-12-27T22:40:01Z")
I am trying to treebank using the fftb. I have filtered out items with non-empty parses. However, for some parses, fftb says “0 remaining” even before annotation (other parses did show to have non-zero parses remaining b… --- ## [Fftb on ubuntu - follow up](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-on-ubuntu-follow-up/753)
**Author:** [@ebender](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/ebender)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-on-ubuntu-follow-up/753 "2022-11-22T18:30:56Z")
A couple more questions about fftb on linux, now that I’ve got it working: When I hit an example with no parses, instead of showing me “0 remaining” or something like that, I get a 404 page (just text saying “404 no s… --- ## [FFTB profile: getting 0 parses but the edge file is non-empty](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-profile-getting-0-parses-but-the-edge-file-is-non-empty/841)
**Author:** [@yclin](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/yclin)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2022, 4:21am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/fftb-profile-getting-0-parses-but-the-edge-file-is-non-empty/841 "2022-10-22T04:21:34Z")
Hi, I am trying to treebank a language but no parses are shown in the fftb for all test items (i.e. the result file in the fftb profile is empty). However, the edge file in the profile is non-empty so there’s supposed … --- ## [Setting up and using fftb](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/setting-up-and-using-fftb/618)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2022, 9:56am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/setting-up-and-using-fftb/618 "2022-05-10T09:56:49Z")
I am trying to learn how to treebank using fftb, but I am missing some basic understanding of what things are. For example (to start), in the following instruction in the wiki: Make a fresh profile mkprof -s src/profi… --- ## [Another case of FFTB not showing results for parsed items](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/another-case-of-fftb-not-showing-results-for-parsed-items/760)
**Author:** [@olzama](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/olzama)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 3, 2022, 10:21am UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/another-case-of-fftb-not-showing-results-for-parsed-items/760 "2022-05-03T10:21:01Z")
I am having this issue when I know ACE can parse some items from the test suite using a particular grammar, but I can’t get fftb working with the profile. I am getting a “404 not found” error for all items. I know there… --- ## [Further fftb woes](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/further-fftb-woes/750)
**Author:** [@ebender](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/ebender)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/further-fftb-woes/750 "2022-04-18T15:11:01Z")
Following up on my previous post, I’m trying fftb on the latest Ubuntu+LKB VM and running into various problems. 1: I have a profile that was produced by the aggregation evaluation set up, and with fftb pointed at the p… --- ## [Compiling FFTB](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/compiling-fftb/255)
**Author:** [@arademaker](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/u/arademaker)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://delphinqa.ling.washington.edu/t/compiling-fftb/255 "2019-03-16T19:08:47Z")
Does anyone manage to compile FFTB? I am trying to make it work with the last ACE 0.9.30 without any success so far. I am blocked in the compilation of web.c What is this liba.h file? $ make gcc -O2 -g -c -o web.o we…