From 070d51e5554cc9840d97556d04bfa64a3d60b38c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Dyer Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:13:12 -0400 Subject: example external feature function --- example_extff/README.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 example_extff/README.md (limited to 'example_extff/README.md') diff --git a/example_extff/README.md b/example_extff/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f2aba487 --- /dev/null +++ b/example_extff/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +This is an example of an _external_ feature function which is loaded as a dynamically linked library at run time to compute feature functions over derivations in a hypergraph. To load feature external feature functions, you can specify them in your `cdec.ini` configuration file as follows: + + feature_function=External /path/to/libmy_feature.so + +Any extra options are passed to the external library. + +*Note*: the build system uses [GNU Libtool](http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/) to create the shared library. This may be placed in a hidden directory called `./libs`. + -- cgit v1.2.3