Switches in FLO (+u or >>, +c1) and making a list of speaker IDs

Wed Aug 14 14:39:52 UTC 2013

Sorry for the confusion.  I was following the instructions on page 110 of
the manual
"+c Select speaker tier only if has at least Nwords or 0 for no words at
all"
I'll experiment with another method.

Amanda

Amanda J. Owen Van Horne
ajowen at gmail.com

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Amanda,
>     KWAL never had a +c switch.  I don't believe that the +c switch for
> FLO was designed to remove empty utterances.  As I suggested earlier, for
> such specialized removals, you would want to use something like BBEdit or
> Sublime Edit. I would do this before a final run of FLO.
>
> --Brian
>
> On Aug 14, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Amanda Owen Van Horne <ajowen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> So I just tried to run a similar analysis using KWAL and the +c switch
> doesn't seem to work in KWAL either (I both typed in my own command and
> copied and pasted the example for extracting speech only from 9.17.2.
> Does +c not work anymore?
>
> Amanda
>
> On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 8:41:26 AM UTC-5, Amanda Owen Van Horne
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>   I'm cleaning codes out of some CHAT files to prepare them for use in
>> another program - I really want one gigantic file full of adult input to
>> children.
>>
>> For the most part I've been relying on the FLO command to create a new
>> file of just the adult input (flo @ -t*CHI -t% +d +r1 +f).
>>
>>   I'd like to do a few things to improve workflow that have me stumped:
>>
>> 1) eliminate 'empty' utterances (*MOT: 0.).  FLO changes it to *MOT: .
>> <-- +c1 seems like it might do this in KWAL (9.17.3 in the manual) but +c
>> doesn't do the same thing with every command and doesn't seem available
>> with FLO. Do I need to do a first pass with KWAL and pipe the results into
>> FLO?  Or vice versa?
>>
>> 2) Make a list of all speaker identifiers across a series of corpus
>> files  (*MOT:, *FAT:, *URS:, etc)
>>
>> 3) Merge all of the output into a single file.  FLO @ -t*CHI -t% +d
>> >>myanalyses  doesn't work nor does +u.  The first generates an empty file
>> called myanalyses plus lots of individual files while the second yields an
>> error message. Again should I be combinging FLO with something else to get
>> the output I want.
>>
>> I've been experimenting with the BATES corpus for now but hope to use
>> more if I can sort out the above issues.
>>
>> Thanks so much for any guidance you can provide.
>>
>> Amanda
>>
>>
>>
>> Amanda J. Owen Van Horne PHD CCC-SLP
>> Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
>> University of Iowa <ajowen at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
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