<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the detailed answers!  I'll look into those CLAN commands, and I agree that the video would help disambiguate the "ges" annotation.  It's helpful to know that it wasn't a mistake.<br><br><br><br>On Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 8:53:32 PM UTC-4, Davida wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Karin,<div><br></div><div>I will answer your first question.  The transcriber did not forget a colon.  The speaker repeated the word “two” in revising “two pieces to “two slices”.  Whether it was an “empty gesture” may depend on your definition of an empty gesture.  It was probably relatively imprecise if it was flagged simply as &=ges, but the best thing to do is to view the video at the Browsable database or by downloading the relevant media file.  The files are set up so that each utterance is linked to the video so you can search for that utterance and play it and watch the video.  Please send an email directly to me (<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="CISJX-39HAAJ" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;">fr...@andrew.cmu.edu</a>) if you want more information about the gesture coding or video playback options.</div><div><br></div><div>-Davida</div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 23, 2017, at 6:37 PM, Leonid Spektor <<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="CISJX-39HAAJ" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;">spe...@andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Karin,<div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre">    </span>I can only answer your second question. There are two CLAN commands that will cleanup speaker tiers in CHAT files. It depends on how much cleanup you need. First command is FLO. It removes all codes and more leaving as little as just a plain text lines. Second command is CHAT2CONLL. It creates output in format suited for either one of the following parsers: Depparse, MaltParser, TurboParser, AnCoraCorpus, Connexor, Clearparser.<div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 23, 2017, at 16:12, Karin <<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="CISJX-39HAAJ" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;">cox.k...@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hello all,<br><br>I will list here two questions, but if it's better to split them up between posts, please let me know.<br><br>(1) I am wondering how to interpret the following coding of a gesture: </span></font><br><br><p><span><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">you
take </span><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><two
pieces> [//] &=ges two</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> [/] two &=fingers:two &sli</span></span><span> <span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Courier New""><span></span>slices of bread . <br></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Courier New""><br></span></span></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><span style="line-height:107%">Does this imply that (a) the speaker made an empty gesture, and then said "two", or (b) the annotator forgot a colon?</span></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><span style="line-height:107%"><br></span></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><span style="line-height:107%">(2) Is there a program in CLAN that allows for the cleaning of the speaker tiers, such that they appear in the way that the parser sees them?   If not, is there a CLAN program that I could modify to produce such output?  I am reasonably experienced with programming, and hopefully would know enough C++ to manage this. <br></span></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Courier New""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Courier New""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you in advance for your time --<br></span></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Courier New""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-- Karin</span></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Courier New""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Courier New""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></span></span></font></p></div><div><br></div>

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