Question about word tokens and new words on CLAN

[Leonid Spektor]

Carolyn,

    The proper place to post this kind of question is on
chibolts at googlegroups.com. I am posting a reply to both chibolts and
info-childes address in case you do not subscribe to chibolts Google Group
yet.

    There is no database size limit set in CLAN except for the memory size
on your computer. Freq command should be able to count all words in
database. The problem might be the format of email messages in CLAN system
or the commands and options you use. Also, please make sure that you have
the latest version of CLAN. To diagnose the problems you are describing it
would be very helpful to me if you could email me a sample of your data and
the command line you are using at spektor at andrew.cmu.edu. If you are not
comfortable to email to me any sample of your data, then please just
describe it and exactly what kind of analyzes you are trying run conduct. Is
your data in just a plain text format or is it in fully legal CHAT format?
If you are trying to simply get a frequency count of all words you can use
"freq +y *.cha" command. That is assuming that your data file(s) have ".cha"
extension. If you are trying to get just count of words associated with a
particular speaker and your data is in legal CHAT format, then you can add
"+t*CHI" option to above command. The "*CHI" refers to a speaker name in
your data files.

Hope this help,
Leonid.


On 28-05-09 10:22, "Carolyn Piazza" <carolynpiazza at gmail.com> wrote:

> To the info-childes google group,
>  
>    I'm not sure if this is the place to send questions, but if it is not,
> perhaps someone can point me to the right place. 
>    I am working on data based on email messages and have placed some 366
> emails into the CLAN system.  When I run a frequency count, the outcome is
> words beginning with the letters O to Z.  The words beginning with A-N are
> missing.  Is there a certain data base size in which the program will not
> accurately process?  Thanks, in advance, to whomever can answer this.
>  
> Best regards,
> Carolyn Piazza
> cpiazza at fsu.edu
> 
> > 
> 


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