extract plain text from CHAT ?

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Frank,
     I am pretty sure I don't understand your question.  CHAT is  
already plain unicode text, so that can't be the issue.  I am guessing  
(just guessing) that you are talking about removing all comment lines  
and headers.  Is that what you mean.  If so, you then want to be able  
to continue to run CLAN on the resultant file.  Please tell us exactly  
what you mean and what you are trying to achieve.  My guess is that  
this can be done, but understanding what you want exactly would help a  
lot.

--Brian MacWhinney

On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Frank Binder wrote:

>
> Dear chibolts,
>
> there is this simple question that for some reason nobody asks, but I
> am feeling lucky today ...
>
>
> Do you know of any (CLAN?) tool that allows to extract data from CHAT
> files, such as the main tier contents, and export it to "plain"
> (unicode) text?
>
>
> That is, I am looking for a tool that removes the CHAT from the CHAT.
> Ideally this would support CLAN's shared options - such as +R +S +T  
> etc.
> -  to select speakers and include or exclude certain annotations and
> symbols/punctuation. Although this would probably be a one-way ticket,
> it seems needed sometimes.
>
> Also, if there's no such tool, any suggestions or experience on how to
> do it?
>
> Thanks in advance and best regards,
>
> Frank
>
>
>
> >
>


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