Basic Ducttape Questions

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Jeffrey Micher

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Jan 21, 2013, 2:19:53 PM1/21/13

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In Nathan's tutorial, under Simple Workflows, there is a statement, "We assume that exectuables for these three steps are available in the same directory as the .tape file:" But doesn't this defeat part of the purpose of ducttape? I have executables all over the place (moses, giza++, srilm, stanford parser, segmenter, my own scripts). I'm confused by this statement. Can anyone explain?

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Nathan Schneider

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Jan 21, 2013, 2:44:16 PM1/21/13

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Jeffrey—that was to keep the example simple; the better practice would be to use packages (which I have not yet documented in the tutorial). You could also use an absolute path.

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Nathan

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Jeffrey Micher <jmi...@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

In Nathan's tutorial, under Simple Workflows, there is a statement, "We assume that exectuables for these three steps are available in the same directory as the .tape file:" But doesn't this defeat part of the purpose of ducttape? I have executables all over the place (moses, giza++, srilm, stanford parser, segmenter, my own scripts). I'm confused by this statement. Can anyone explain?

thanks