Support for users of CCG software closed 7-27-20

[Dagmar Gromann <dgromann AT iiia.csic.es>]

Dear Cognitive Computation Group, 

I would like to first of all congratulate you on the Semantic Role Labeler 
Curator, which is really one fine piece of work. We investigate spatial 
concepts and the dependency parsing and role labeling provided by the Curator 
is excellent for that purpose. 

However, I have a suggestion for an update of the documentation. It took me 
and a colleague two full days to get the software to run (others seem to have 
given up completely: 
http://www.kenvanharen.com/2012/11/comparison-of-semantic-role-labelers.html).
 We had all components running apart from the SRL because we could not get 
the Charniak parser to run. We even tried to compile it with Thrift 0.4. as 
suggested in the Charniak ReadMe but nothing helped. In the end it was a very 
trivial problem: 

We had to change all the include directives adding "thrift" at the beginning 
- from #include <protocol/TBinaryProtocol.h> to #include 
<thrift/protocol/TBinaryProtocol.h> in all the files that the 
charniakThriftServer file calls and then it worked perfectly. Could you maybe 
add this change to the documentation troubleshooting section for users trying 
to install on Debian 8 or similar? I would like to spare other users this 
experience if somehow possible.

Thanks and best regards,
Dagmar Gromann