coding addressees

celiarosemberg at gmail.com celiarosemberg at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 12:08:34 UTC 2015


Dear Brian, 
Thank you very much for your answer. We will try with GEM.
Best,
Celia
  

El viernes, 13 de noviembre de 2015, 16:12:24 (UTC-3), Brian MacWhinney 
escribió:
>
> Dear Celia (and Alex),
>      Many corpora use the current system.  However, I agree that it is 
> cumbersome.  If there is a big block of adult speech that you would like to 
> exclude, then using GEM markers would certainly be a lot easier.  It would 
> be 
> @Bg: adult_talk
> …..
> @Eg: adult_talk
> And then you use the GEM program to exclude these.  Alternatively, you 
> could focus on using inclusion.
> Also, you can handle inclusion and exclusion through postcodes on 
> individual utterances.
>
> —Brian MacWhinney
>
> From: ChiBolts <chib... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>> on behalf of Alex 
> CRISTIA <alecr... at gmail.com <javascript:>>
> Reply-To: ChiBolts <chib... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>>
> Date: Friday, November 13, 2015 at 2:23 AM
> To: ChiBolts <chib... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>>
> Cc: Celia Rosemberg <crr... at hotmail.com <javascript:>>
> Subject: coding addressees
>
> Dear Chibolters,
>
> We would like to classify utterances as addressed to the key child, to 
> other children, or to adults, to later analyze separately addressed, 
> overheard, etc., within CLAN and outside (e.g. applying word segmentation 
> algorithms). There is already a standardized format for this mentioned in 
> the manuals, but I wonder whether there are less costly alternatives (we 
> are coding 2 continuous hours of each child).
>
> The chat manual (p. 79) describes:
>  
>
> *Addressee Tier %add: *
>
> *This tier describes who talks to whom. Use the three-letter identifier 
> given in the par- ticipants header to identify the addressees. *
>
>
> **MOT: be quiet. *
>
> *%add: ALI, BEA *
>
> *In this example, Mother is telling Alice and Beatrice to “be quiet.” *
>
>
> And the CLAN manual (p. 128):
>
> *9.21.1Including and Excluding in MLU and MLT *
>
> *Researchers often wish to conduct MLU analyses on particular subsets of 
> their data. *
>
> *This can be done using commands such as: *
>
> *kwal +t*CHI +t%add +s"mot" sample.cha +d | mlu *
>
> *This command looks at only those utterances spoken by the child to the 
> mother as ad- dressee. KWAL outputs these utterances through a pipe to the 
> MLU program. The pipe symbol | is used to indicate this transfer of data 
> from one program to the next. If you want to send the output of the MLU 
> analysis to a file, you can do this with the redirect symbol, as in this 
> version of the command: *
>
> *kwal +t*CHI +t%add +s"mot" sample.cha +d | mlu > file.mlu *
>
>
>
> Although this is useful, this requires having an %add line for every 
> transcription line. When there are only two partners talking to each other, 
> it would be easier to define them throughout (only marking deviations) 
> rather than repeating the information. Does anyone have any tips as to how 
> this would be accomplished? For instance, could this be done combining a 
> long scope event (gem-style) with local switches, as is done for example 
> with languages (eng defined by default, switches marked with [- spa] or 
> @s:spa)?
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
>
> Alex Cristia
>
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