<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Aug 14, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Amanda Owen Van Horne <<a href="mailto:ajowen@gmail.com">ajowen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi, <br> I'm
cleaning codes out of some CHAT files to prepare them for use in
another program - I really want one gigantic file full of adult input to children. <br><br>For the most part I've been relying on the FLO command
to create a new file of just the adult input (</span></font><span style="font-weight:normal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">flo @ -t*CHI -t% +d +r1 +f). <br></span></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I would use KWAL for this, rather than FLO. Also, you can use TRIM, which simplifies some of the typing in the KWAL command.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font></span><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br> I'd like to do a few things to improve workflow that have me stumped: <br>
<br>1) eliminate 'empty' utterances (*MOT: 0.). FLO changes it to *MOT:
. <-- +c1 seems like it might do this in KWAL (9.17.3 in the
manual) but +c doesn't do the same thing with every command and doesn't
seem available with FLO. Do I need to do a first pass with KWAL and pipe
the results into FLO? Or vice versa? <br>
<br></span></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For detailed and/or complex custom removals and changes of this type, I would recommend using a Regular Expression editor such as BBEdit (Mac) or Sublime Edit (PC).</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2) Make a list of all speaker identifiers across a series of corpus files (*MOT:, *FAT:, *URS:, etc) <br></span></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; ">freq +s"\**" *.cha +re +y +u</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; "><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>3) Merge all of the output into a single file. FLO </span></font><span style="font-weight:normal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">@
-t*CHI -t% +d >>myanalyses doesn't work nor does +u. The first generates an empty file called myanalyses plus lots of individual files while the second yields an error message. Again should I be combinging FLO with something else to get the output I want. <br></span></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div>We designed KWAL, rather than FLO for what you are doing. KWAL would seem to be a better match. You could always fun FLO at the very end, if needed. </div><div><br></div><div>--Brian MacWhinney<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br>I've been experimenting with the BATES corpus for now but hope to use more if I can sort out the above issues. <br><br>Thanks so much for any guidance you can provide.<br><br>Amanda <br></span></font></span><br>
<br><br clear="all">Amanda J. Owen Van Horne PHD CCC-SLP<br>Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders<br>University of Iowa<br><a href="mailto:ajowen@gmail.com" target="_blank">ajowen@gmail.com</a><div>Amanda J. Owen Van Horne<br>
<a href="mailto:ajowen@gmail.com" target="_blank">ajowen@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><br></div>
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