MLU in browsable database not working

Brian Macwhinney macw at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Aug 6 17:43:51 UTC 2026


Yes, John fixed this a couple of hours ago.  It was an Ubuntu protection thing.

—Brian

> On Aug 6, 2026, at 1:43 PM, Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Ken,
> 
> I just tried it and it works for me, please see screenshot below. Perhaps it was just a glitch.
> 
> <mlu.jpg>
> 
> Leonid.
>> On Aug 6, 2026, at 09:21, Ken Nakatani <kentaro.nakatani at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> MLU in browsable database does not seem to be working.
>> E.g., in the Brown > Adam corpus
>> 
>> mlu  +t*CHI *.cha
>> 
>> would yield an error message saying: 
>> 
>> **** WARNING: No file matching "*.cha" was found.
>> 
>> I understand that this is sort of a transition period when it comes to the browsable database, but is there any time frame regarding when we expect that there will be a fix?  I often use browsable database in my undergrad classes, so I would appreciate it if I can get an idea about whether I can expect a fix or I should stay away from the browsable database.
>> 
>> Thank you in advance!  I really appreciate all the efforts made by the people maintaining the CHILDES environments.
>> 
>> Ken Nakatani
>> 
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