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displaying one specific space as masked in self-paced reading? - atfrederiksen - 04-13-2022
Hi!
I'm designing a self-paced reading experiment (tokenized text, masked, forward_mask: true). For one word 'he' I would like to have the mask be 3 characters (xxx) instead of two, to make 'he' indistinguishable from 'she' when they are masked. Is there a way to do this while keeping the general shape of the words/sentence visible (so not masking all spaces)?
Thanks!
RE: displaying one specific space as masked in self-paced reading? - Rachel - Participant Affairs - 04-14-2022
Hi atfrederiksen,
I am checking on this for you, and I will get back to you soon.
Best,
Rachel
RE: displaying one specific space as masked in self-paced reading? - Rachel - Participant Affairs - 04-14-2022
Hi atfrederiksen,
You could do this by using "+" in place of normal spaces and "+" as the delimiter for the sentence containing the word in which you'd like the mask to be padded ('he'). So, for example, you could define this stimulus like so:
"ssr_1": {
"type": "tokenized_text",
"content": "He +is+very+happy",
"delimiter": "+",
"self_paced": true,
"mode": "masked",
"forward_mask": true
}
For the other stimulus, you could either define like so:
"ssr_2": {
"type": "tokenized_text",
"content": "She+is+very+happy",
"delimiter": "+",
"self_paced": true,
"mode": "masked",
"forward_mask": true
}
Or as you would typically define it:
"ssr_2": {
"type": "tokenized_text",
"content": "She is very happy",
"self_paced": true,
"mode": "masked",
"forward_mask": true
}
However, these sentences will show up as single strings of (equal length) masked characters. It's not possible to accomplish what you are asking with individually masked elements.
I hope that helps!
Best,
Rachel
RE: displaying one specific space as masked in self-paced reading? - atfrederiksen - 04-14-2022
(04-14-2022, 02:08 PM)Hi Rachel,Thanks for your help.It looks like this accomplishes more or less the same as setting masked_spaces to TRUE, then (except with one more character)?This doesn't solve my problem, but it looks like it is not currently solvable. Thanks again!Rachel - Participant Affairs Wrote: Hi atfrederiksen,
You could do this by using "+" in place of normal spaces and "+" as the delimiter for the sentence containing the word in which you'd like the mask to be padded ('he'). So, for example, you could define this stimulus like so:
"ssr_1": {
"type": "tokenized_text",
"content": "He +is+very+happy",
"delimiter": "+",
"self_paced": true,
"mode": "masked",
"forward_mask": true
}
For the other stimulus, you could either define like so:
"ssr_2": {
"type": "tokenized_text",
"content": "She+is+very+happy",
"delimiter": "+",
"self_paced": true,
"mode": "masked",
"forward_mask": true
}
Or as you would typically define it:
"ssr_2": {
"type": "tokenized_text",
"content": "She is very happy",
"self_paced": true,
"mode": "masked",
"forward_mask": true
}
However, these sentences will show up as single strings of (equal length) masked characters. It's not possible to accomplish what you are asking with individually masked elements.
I hope that helps!
Best,
Rachel