Dear Jonathan:
Wow! That's a bit of work there. Ill let others comment on the technical
details, but Ill just say thanks for all your time and deep effort.
John
On 5/3/2010 10:55 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear all
>
> Stimulated by Robert Muetzelfeldt's initiative to produce a grammar for CF
> standard names based on the existing guidelines for construction of standard
> names, I have done some work on deriving a comprehensive grammar of the
> standard name table, described at
> http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~jonathan/CF_metadata/13/standard_name_grammar.html
> The grammar consists of a lexicon, which lists the phrases composing standard
> names and assigns each one a phrasetype (scalar, medium, component, surface,
> etc.), and a list of patterns which describe the syntax of standard names e.g.
> tendency_of_atmosphere_water_vapor_content_due_to_advection
> conforms to the pattern
> (function_of) (layer) (scalar) due_to_(phenomenon)
> In the web page I have described how I did the analysis. Attached to the web
> page are the files which define the lexicon and the patterns for version 13 of
> the standard name table (the present version), and two scripts for checking
> and processing standard names using the grammar.
>
> I don't know whether this will be useful, but I believe it could be. It ought
> to make it easier to devise new names based on existing lexicon and syntax,
> and to see how to extend the lexicon and syntax when necessary.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jonathan
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