bllip parser in Server

[jofatmofn]

Please let me know if bllip parser can be used in this fashion. I am using Flask.

During start-up:
rrp = RerankingParser.fetch_and_load('WSJ-PTB3', verbose=True)

While processing (multiple concurrent) requests from clients (Same object rrp is reused):
constituency_lisp_string = str(rrp.parse_tagged(tokens, possible_tags=dict(enumerate(postags)))[0].ptb_parse)

[dmcc]

It's fine to reuse a RerankingParser object, but BLLIP's multithreading doesn't work properly (see #16) so you'll need to ensure that only one parse is happening at a time (try something like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5185568/python-conditional-with-lock-design ).

[jofatmofn]

Thanks. If I need to have multiple concurrent parses, then is it okay to maintain a pool of rrp objects?

[dmcc]

If each RRP is in a separate process, it will be alright (not sure if flask supports this). The RRPs are in the same process, they will almost certainly corrupt each other if they're used simultaneously, unfortunately.