two more questions about converting SALT files to CHAT format

[Brian MacWhinney]

On Nov 11, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Ying Lu <ying.lu at utexas.edu> wrote:

> Dear Leonid,
> 
> Thank you very much for the explanations and your work on the quotes conversation problem! I look forward to the new version of CLAN! If resolving the MLU issue will take a while, could you suggest a way of dealing with the quotes conversation problem with the current version of CLAN? Thank you!!!
> 
> By the way, I wonder if I am on the right track of counting the MLU in terms of efficiency. In order to convert a SALT file (e.g., test.slt) to CHAT format and calculate the MLU in CLAN (results saved to a permanent file), I need to go through the following stages:
> 
> (1) run SALTIN test.slt
> (2) run MOR test.sltin.cha
> (3) save the test.sltin.mor.cex file to test.sltin.mor.cha file
> (4) run POST test.sltin.mor.cha
> (5) save the test.sltin.mor.pst.cex file to test.sltin.mor.pst.cha file
> (6) run mlu +t*CHI +f test.sltin.mor.pst.cha
> 

Ying,
       You don't need to rename during steps 3 and 5.  Moreover, if you use the +1 switch for these various steps, you will continually replace the original with a new file, eliminating extra work and extra files.  In this way, the job should only take a few seconds.  

-- Brian

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