excluding utterances with code-switching

[Janet Bang]

Hi Leonid,

Yes thank you this will work out great!

Janet

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 6:08 PM Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Janet,
>
> MLU and most other commands work on word by word bases, so the -s"L2|*" or
> -s"*@s* options will only exclude those words, but not the whole utterance.
> KWAL and COMBO allow selection or exclusion of the whole utterances based
> on words on those utterances. If you have "[- eng]" pre-code and @s symbols
> on words and you want to exclude all utterances with "[- eng]" pre-code or
> if the utterance has at least one word with @s, then you need to use KWAL
> to extract the utterances you want first and then run MLU on the output of
> KWAL command. This KWAL and MLU commands should do what you want:
>
> kwal -s"[- eng]" -s*@s* +o at ID +o% -d +f  filename(s).cha
> mlu *.kwal.cex
>
> If this doesn't do what you want, then please email to me a sample of your
> data files, so that I could see how you have coded them and give me more
> details on what you want to achieve.
>
>
> Leonid.
>
> On Nov 19, 2018, at 18:52, Janet Bang <jbang at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We are working on bilingual transcriptions and had a question about
> code-switched utterances. Apologies if I've missed this in the manual.
>
> One of our goals is to obtain an mlu for Spanish only utterances,
> excluding mixed utterances. For example:
> *MOT: ahorita tienes que comer.
> *MOT: no es time at s to at s sleep at s.
>
> We would like to obtain an mlu (on the %mor line) excluding the utterance
> with code-switching. We've tried the following command, but this includes
> bothutterances excluding the English words, where we'd like the output to
> consider the Spanish-only line.
> mlu -s"[- eng]" -s"L2|*"
>
> It seems like our options are:
> 1) go back to our transcripts and add a postcode for any code-switched
> utterances to use the +s switch with postcodes
> 2) use kwal to exclude utterances with the @s symbol similar to what is
> seen here
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/chibolts/kdeVQEw7OZI/Siad8ni4SrEJ;context-place=searchin/chibolts/adding$20postcode%7Csort:date>
>
> I wanted to know if there was a way to use the switches to exclude
> utterances with the @s symbol, or automate a way to include a postcode in
> our transcripts for every utterance with the @s symbol?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Janet
>
>
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