Thank you for your swift and helpful response! <div><br /></div><div><br /><div><b>Yes you have understood correctly :) </b><br /></div><div>In this case, we don't want to create new error codes (because any "new codes" is a result of typos as opposed to purposely wanting to create new codes). </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Question 1</b></div><div>So to check I have understood correctly, the way to make sure error codes are only from the CLAN manual is by careful transcription (aka not making typos)?</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Question 2</b></div><div>We can catch error codes we do not want in our transcripts but the way to check for unwanted codes is to manually look at this spreadsheet output made by the code above? </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Question 3</b></div><div>Is there a difference between the code you've typed (freq +s"[\* *]") and the one I typed <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">freq +s"\[\* *\]" +t*PAR * +d2 ?</span></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></font></div><div>Thanks. </div><div><br /></div><div>Sophie</div><div>(she/her/hers) <br /><br /></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 12:22:58 PM UTC+1 Leonid Spektor wrote:<br/></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Hi Sophie,<div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>I don't understand what the problem is. Is it that FREQ command finds error code that you are not looking for or is it that data files have error codes that you consider illegal?</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>CLAN does not check spelling of error codes. It assumes that if you have [* ...], then you want it to be an error code. It is up to transcriber to follow valid error codes convention and to use only valid error codes in transcripts.</div><div><br></div><div>This approach allows transcriber to create new error codes that are specific to their transcription and to not be limited by just few choice error codes. If you run command (freq +s"[\* *]"), similar to the one you have in your email, then you can catch any error codes that you do not want in your transcript.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">Leonid.</span>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 2, 2024, at 06:51, Sophie Brook <<a href data-email-masked rel="nofollow">sophiem...@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi there, <div><br></div><div><b>What I did</b></div><div>I used this code: </div><div>
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<div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">freq +s"\[\* *\]" +t*PAR * +d2</span></p><p>to output frequencies of different errors e.g., phonological [* p:w] [* p:n] , morphological, semantic and neologisms etc etc </p><p><b>The problem</b></p><p>I found mistypes within the errors in the output eg [* p:nw] was not found to be an error even though this error code is not a valid one recognised by CLAN. Or another example, missing square brackets and colons in error codes. </p><p>I have been manually changing the CHAT files after combing through the columns to see which transcriptions have found these "illegal error codes". <br></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b>Question </b></p><p>Why is this happening?</p><p>Is there a way around this?</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Thank you!!! :) </p><p>Best, </p><p>Sophie Brook </p><p>(she/her) </p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><br></p>
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