CHILDES data format

Benjamin Börschinger benjamin.boerschinger at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 18 19:52:18 UTC 2012


Hello Marwa,

I'm not aware of any such scripts but perhaps you should consider
using xml-files as input for the conversion? As far as I know, you can
get xml-versions of all the files here:
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data-xml/

regards,

benjamin

On 18 July 2012 15:32, Marwa Ragheb <marwahsn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am currently working on converting the CHILDES data in the US English
> folder to another format (CoNLL). The problem I am having is that it seems
> to me that format of the .cha files is slightly different from one folder to
> another. I looked in the documentation on the files, but it doesn't say
> anything about the differences in format. I was hoping there was either a
> way (e.g., a command in CLAN or a script)to make them all look the same, so
> I could write one script for them all, or at least a listing of which
> folders have the latest, or standard .cha files, and which ones are
> different.
> Also, if anyone out there knows of a ready-made script that changes .cha to
> (some) CoNLL format, I'd appreciate it if they pointed me to it.
>
> Thanks!
> Marwa Ragheb
> PhD Candidate
> Indiana University
>
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