MLU not including xxx

[RSteinkrauss]

Dear CHIBOLTS community,

I am trying to run MLU on files that include utterances containing xxx . I would like MLU to include these utterances in the count, but even when adding +xxxx or +x"xxx" to the MLU command, all utterances containing any xxx are skipped and the MLU returns only a count for those utterances without xxx. This happens both when running MLU on the main tier (-t%mor) or the %mor tier. I am using the latest version of CLAN.
Is there anything I can do to get the desired effect, i.e. that utterances with xxx are included and that xxx is counted as one word?

Thanks very much in advance!
Rasmus Steinkrauss

[Brian MacWhinney]

Rasmus,

      The rules for MLU require exclusion of utterances with xxx.  If you want to get around this, I would recommend just changing xxx globally to xyz.  If you are using the %mor line, you might also want to add xyz to the lexicon.

--Brian MacWhinney

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[Leonid Spektor]

Rasmus,

I see that Usage information for MLU is not very clear. The +xxxx option has effect only on +xCN option. They are bot used together. Options to include xxx or yyy in MLU count are +sxxx and +syyy respectively. 

Leonid.