1) our current way of specifying params is very verbose. something shorter might be useful for applications. 2) the PCS format might be a nice idea. it is string based, and we could even parse PCS files if we implement a parser it is defined here: http://aclib.net/cssc2014/pcs-format.pdf 3) i made quite a lot of progress my writing my parser with the rly package a PR is here #155