diff --git a/DataReader/LUSequenceReader/LUSequenceWriter.cpp b/DataReader/LUSequenceReader/LUSequenceWriter.cpp
index d18976fcb..28815bcbc 100644
--- a/DataReader/LUSequenceReader/LUSequenceWriter.cpp
+++ b/DataReader/LUSequenceReader/LUSequenceWriter.cpp
@@ -125,10 +125,11 @@ namespace Microsoft { namespace MSR { namespace CNTK {
         if (outputFileIds.find(outputFile) == outputFileIds.end())
         {
             FILE* ofs;
+			msra::files::make_intermediate_dirs(outputFile);
             string str(outputFile.begin(), outputFile.end());
             ofs = fopen(str.c_str(), "wt");
             if (ofs == nullptr)
-                RuntimeError("Cannot open open %s for writing", str.c_str());
+                RuntimeError("Cannot open %s for writing", str.c_str());
             outputFileIds[outputFile] = ofs;
             fp = ofs;
         }
diff --git a/ExampleSetups/SLU/rnnlu.config b/ExampleSetups/SLU/rnnlu.config
index d466cf280..0c2ac2648 100644
--- a/ExampleSetups/SLU/rnnlu.config
+++ b/ExampleSetups/SLU/rnnlu.config
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ LSTMTest=[
 
     modelPath=$ExpDir$\cntkdebug.dnn
 
-	outputNodeNames=outputs
+	outputNodeNames=outputs:labels
 
     reader=[
       # reader to use
@@ -442,6 +442,11 @@ LSTMTest=[
             file=$OutDir$\output.rec.txt
             token=$DataDir$\output.txt
         ]
+		
+		labels=[
+            file=$OutDir$\output.lbl.txt
+			token=$DataDir$\output.txt
+		]
     ]
 ]
 
diff --git a/ExampleSetups/SLU/score.sh b/ExampleSetups/SLU/score.sh
index 0f46f1aeb..99abf89ae 100644
--- a/ExampleSetups/SLU/score.sh
+++ b/ExampleSetups/SLU/score.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# need to have outputs
-# in this case is output.rec.txt
+# need to have outputs and labels
+# in this case is output.rec.txt and output.lbl.txt
 
-awk '{str1=$1; getline < "output.rec.txt"; print str1" "$1 > "output.12.txt"}' feat.txt
+awk 'NF {str1=$1; getline < "output.rec.txt"; print str1" "$1 > "output.12.txt"}' feat.txt
 
-awk '{str1=$1; str2=$2; getline < "lbl.txt"; print str1" NNP "$1 " "str2 > "output.all.txt"}' output.12.txt
+awk '{str1=$1; str2=$2; getline < "output.lbl.txt"; print str1" NNP "$1 " "str2 > "output.all.txt"}' output.12.txt
 
 cat output.all.txt | perl -ne '{chomp;s/\r//g;print $_,"\n";}' | perl conlleval.pl | head -10