Excluding certain items from Kideval NDW output

[Leonid Spektor]

Hi Erin,

	As Prof. Brian MacWhinney stated KIDEVAL does not count xxx. Also, as he suggested, if you do not want to count "eh", then transcribe it like this "&-eh".

The major confusion seems to be in what TD_Words (NDW) counts. As the name suggests it counts number of words, not utterances. Bellow is your sample file that I modified to better show what TD_Words counts. The red words are not counted and the blue shows running word count. The output is below the sample data and the TD_Words is 11.

*CHI:	it's an apple [% #words 3] .
%mor:	pro:per|it~cop|be&3S det:art|a n|apple .
%gra:	1|2|SUBJ 2|0|ROOT 3|4|DET 4|2|PRED 5|2|PUNCT
*CHI:	red [% #words 4] .
%mor:	adj|red .
%gra:	1|0|INCROOT 2|1|PUNCT
*CHI:	two [% #words 5] .
%mor:	det:num|two .
%gra:	1|0|INCROOT 2|1|PUNCT
*CHI:	oink [% #words 6] .
%mor:	on|oink .
%gra:	1|0|INCROOT 2|1|PUNCT
*CHI:	xxx .
*CHI:	tomorrow we will [% #words 9] .
%mor:	adv:tem|tomorrow pro:sub|we mod|will .
%gra:	1|3|LINK 2|3|SUBJ 3|0|INCROOT 4|3|PUNCT
*CHI:	okay [% #words 10] .
%mor:	co|okay .
%gra:	1|0|INCROOT 2|1|PUNCT
*CHI:	&-eh .
*CHI:	two [% #words 11] .
%mor:	det:num|two .
%gra:	1|0|INCROOT 2|1|PUNCT


Verbs_Utt	TD_Words	TD_Utts	TD_Time_(secs)
0.143		11			9		0


Leonid.

> On Jun 26, 2024, at 17:30, Erin Kosloski <erin.kosloski at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We are trying to figure out a way for kideval to not count xxx and interjections when calculating NDW.
> 
> I have attached a screenshot with our sample file (left) and our kideval output (right).
> 
> Right now, kideval is producing a NDW of 12. We presume it is including xxx and "eh" (both circled in red) toward the NDW, and we would like to find a way for kideval to exclude that and only count the words highlighted in yellow (i.e. NDW of 10). In the past, we have tried to tag words like "eh" with an @i to mark them as interjections, but we were unsuccessful in finding a way to get the kideval command to exclude words with tags. 
> 
> What is the best way for us to tell kideval to not count xxx and eh as words toward the NDW?
> 
> Any help is appreciated. Thank you! 
> 
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