<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Karin,<div class=""> The bag of words method just means that the program looks at the words in one transcript and then checks to see if the other transcript uses the same words. This method doesn't pay attention to the order of words. So, a transcript that says "This bus always arrives early" and one that says "This bus arrives always early" will end up being judged as the same, because they have the same words. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- Brian MacWhinney<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 20, 2020, at 5:00 AM, Karin Edlund <<a href="mailto:karin.eva.edlund@gmail.com" class="">karin.eva.edlund@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi,<div class="">I have a question about the RELY function 3 and how it is calculated?</div><div class="">My transcriptions comprises teacher and students dialogue. </div><div class="">In the manual it says it will calculate the overall match on the main line between two versions and that it uses a rough-and-ready "bag of "words" to compare.</div><div class="">What does this mean?</div><div class="">Grateful to receive some more information/explanantion about this.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Karin Edlund</div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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