Counting single-word utterances & dividing transcripts

[ran...@g.harvard.edu]

Hello all,

Hope you're enjoying the holiday season! I have two quick questions and would really appreciate your kind help.

1) I have a batch of coded transcripts. In each transcript, some utterances were coded as A (using a dependent tier %cat: $A), and the remaining ones did not receive that code (i.e. no %cat tier). Is there a way to run VOCD/MLU on the A utterances and no-code utterances separately? Essentially I'm hoping to divide up the transcripts based on the code A.

2) Is there a convenient way to count the number of single-word utterances (e.g., "Sit.") or multi-word utterances in a transcript? All transcripts are in English.

Thank you and stay healthy!

Best,

Ran

[Leonid Spektor]

Hi Ran,

Happy holidays.

1). You need to breakup your data files into sets with $A and without $A file. To create the $A file set run command:

kwal +d +o@ +t% +s"$A" +f$A filenames

Then run any other command on the $A files created with above command: "*.$A.cex"

Next, to create the no $A file set run command:

kwal +d +o@ +t% -s"$A" +fno$A filenames

Now run any other command on the no $A files created with above command: "*.no$A.cex"

2). Lots of commands take +x option. The +x=0w counts utterances with 0 words, +x=1w counts utterances with just one word and +x>1w counts utterances with more than one word. For example, you can use these options with mlt +x>1w filenames command.

Leonid.

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