Quotations

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Diane,
    MOR doesn't exactly ignore the quote.  Rather it treats it as a 
single noun.  This is a tricky matter, particularly since a parser 
would need to know that the whole phrase is functioning first as a 
nominal and then with internal structure.  Until we figure out a clever 
way of doing this, changing the behavior of the quoting would really 
mess up the POST program.
   However, there is a good method for dealing with longer quotes which 
I recommend.  It is
the form
*MOT:	okay here's the Mommy talking to the dog, and she says +".
*MOT:	+" look after the baby Carl, I'll be back shortly.
My goal is eventually to go through the database changing inline quotes 
to this format.  You should be able to do it for your data directly.  
You could also use this form for your first example, but that is your 
call.

--Brian MacW

On Sep 21, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Leach, Diane (NIH/NICHD) wrote:

> Hi there.
>  
> I have been using the symbols <phrase> ["] to denote quoted material 
> in transcripts.  For example:
>  
> *MOT: so she says <good dog Carl> ["].
>  
> *MOT: okay here's the Mommy talking to the dog, and she says, <look 
> after
>  the baby Carl, I'll be back shortly> ["].
>  
> The MOR and POST programs seem to be ignoring the material in the <>.  
> Is there a way to get MOR and POST to use the words in the <> or do I 
> need to replace the <> ["] with +" (or just remove the symbols 
> altogether)?
>  
> Diane
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