Language Acquisition

Friday, April 25, 2003 3:59 pm

1. addition to the Project email: the project is a big chunk, you obviously cannot solve it entirely, and you are not expected to. The guideline is: whatever you do, do it well. It is much better to have slightly less coverage and have very good discussion of whatever you cover, than more coverage but imprecise or unclear discussion of what you cover.

2. The list of keywords is now available on the dochoa website:

http://brico.auf.net/dochoa

They are all uploaded now, you'll get them if you sync. Please send me feedback if you spot odd results, I'll try to upgrade things promptly.

3. When you open an editor on your queries (such as eg 'Sessions first withSubject'), the editor now contains the number of the utterance, so you can go back and find its context.

4. There is now a 'find:' keyword. You can use it like this:

self first targetUtterances verbal  find: 'why'

This will open an editor with all verbal utterances that contain the sequence 'why'.

5. Tentatively, I changed the first line of the child utterances, so that you now see the chat format in all its gory details (you need to close and reopen your editor to get that). Earlier it gave you a 'cleaned up' version to protect you from chat. However, that led to the puzzlement of some people who had apparently repeated tags. I believe that those 'repetitions' were actually correct, because the orginal chat format had those. Those of you who suffered from apparent repetitions of tags, please let me know if you worries are soothed. Those of you who hate the new display, let me know also.

Happy thinking and exploring!

Michal