double subjects

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Zhou Chen,

    I did some more checking on the double subject problem.  It appears that this arises because our major training corpus includes a lot of adult speech and adults are not using these verb-verb constructions in the same way as the children.  I can resolve this by working on fixing the relevant sentences in the Eve-Train training corpus.  I can spot the problems using this command:

kwal +t%mor +t%grt +d7 +sSUBJ +s@|v *.cha

However, there are about 80 sentences to fix and this will take some time.  However, eventually I should be able to fix this problem.  You can also use that command to spot the problems yourself.  However, you would need to change +t%grt to +t%gra

— Brian MacWhinney

[Leonid Spektor]

Zhou Chen,

The KWAL command that Brian mentions is a brand new feature and at this time it only works with Mac version of CLAN. I will update Windows PC and Unix versions later today and you will need to download latest version of CLAN in order to use this command.

Leonid.

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[Zhuo (Cindy) Chen]

Dear CHIBOLTS,

I found that you updated Manchester corpus. I believe it's because you finished working on the problem of double subject.

I had a random look and found in Anne05b, you have this utterance where everything before the verb "think" is tagged as subject.

*MOT:	what's that „ do you think ?
%mor:	pro:wh|what~cop|be&3S pro:dem|that end|end v|do pro|you v|think ?
%gra:	1|2|SUBJ 2|7|SUBJ 3|7|SUBJ 4|7|SUBJ 5|7|SUBJ 6|7|SUBJ 7|0|ROOT 8|7|PUNCT

[Brian MacWhinney]

I think I see how this might be happening.  There are several sentences in the training corpus that erroneously have this double subject marking.  Once those are fixed, this type of marking should decrease.  Also, we plan to do some more retraining later this month.

—Brian

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