MLU using clauses?

[Leonid Spektor]

Yuuko,

	I have changed mlu and mlt to allow the use of "-s"<@s>" and -s"<@i>" options along with -c"[^c]" option. We never had a situation before in which someone wanted to exclude words delimited by <....> [code] from the tier mlu count, so this feature was disabled. Usually, the whole tier is excluded, which is done with postcodes, [+ ...].  You can use this command to get the results you want:

mlu -t%mor -c"[^c]" -s"<@s>" -s"<@i>" filename.cha

Please, note that you have to use the "-t%mor" option, because the clause codes and other codes are not specified on %mor tiers. The "%mor" tier is the default tier for mlu analysis.

Leonid.





On Jun 21, 2010, at 17:57, Yuuko Uchikoshi wrote:

> Than you Leonid for your email.
> We actually tried 
> 
> mlu -c"[^c]" -s"<@s>" -s"<@i>" filename.cha
> 
> and we get the following error message… 
> 
> > mlu -c"[^c]" -s"<@s>" -s"<@i>" F1017*.cha
> -s@ or -s option can not be used together with either option +s@ or +s.
> Offending word is: <@s>
> 
> I have attached the file we are testing this on.  Basically the child says:
> 
> *CHI: the dog is looking at the frog [^c].
> *INV: mmhm.
> *CHI: <um> [@i] the boy is sleeping [^c] but the dog said [^c]  the frog
> 	jumped out [^c].
> *CHI: <cantonese words> [@s].
> *CHI: the end.
> 
> We wanted to have total number of words: 21
> Total number of clauses: 4 (we don't want to count <cantonese words> and <the end>)
> 
> Thank you so much for helping us out!
> 
> Best,
> Yuuko
>  
> From: Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
> Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:35 PM
> Subject: Re: MLU using clauses?
> To: "yuchikoshi at ucdavis.edu" <yt94123 at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> Yuuko,
> 
> As best as I understand what you are trying to do you need to use the same options to exclude code-switched words or fillers in mlu as you do in freq. In this case your mlu command would look like this:
> 
> mlu -c"[^c]" -s"<@s>" -s"<@i>" filename.cha
> 
> If this does not help, then please email me a small example of the input file and an example of the output you expect to get.
> 
> Leonid.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 21, 2010, at 17:00, yuchikoshi at ucdavis.edu wrote:
> 
> > Hello. I am trying to count MLU using clauses as units, but not
> > counting code-switched words or fillers.
> >
> > I put in @s for all code-switched words and @i for all fillers.
> >
> > When I do freq  +t*CHI -s"<@s>" -s"<@i>" filename*.cha
> > I get the type/token for all words minus the code-switched words and
> > fillers.
> >
> > However, when I do: mlu -c"[^c]" filename.cha
> > it counts my code-switched sentences as extra utterances.
> >
> > Can someone tell me the command to count MLU using clauses as units,
> > but not counting code-switched words or fillers?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Yuuko Uchikoshi
> >
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