Frequency of verb forms by verb type

[Leonid Spektor]

Kevin,

	You are absolutely right that CHAT is not CLAN specific format. But, being a plain text format makes it prone to have a lot of extraneous data in between. For example if someone wants to look at a speaker tier or %mor tier only you would have to filter out the rest. If you are looking for %mor tier of just one particular speaker only, then it becomes even more complicated. Using CLAN to filter unneeded data is the easiest solution. After that CHAT is just a plain text.

	For those who do not want to use CLAN at all and still have an easy way to parse the data we have XML-CHAT on our server. Just look for "XML" in "Database" section on our web server's home page.

Leonid.



On Oct 8, 2013, at 17:54 , Kevin Donnelly wrote:

> Hi Leonid
> 
> ::::On Tuesday 08 October 2013 Leonid Spektor said::::
>> Your suggestion to use Unix commands or any other non-CLAN commands
>> on CHAT data is not a good idea, unless you take extra precautions,
>> because CHAT format allows long tiers to wrap-around. Non-CLAN commands
>> will work often, but they will fail on wrapped-around tiers and will leave
>> out the part of tier that is wrapped. If you really want to use non-CLAN
>> commands, then you should first run CLAN's LONGTIER command to remove all
>> the tier wrapping and to make sure that the whole tier is on one line.
> 
> Sure, good point - you need to use LONGTIER or something like Sed to 
> straighten the lines (and in fact that might usefully be added to CLAN as an 
> option). But I think it's important to remember that one of the CHAT format's 
> strengths is that it is a vanilla plain text file, and therefore does not 
> actually require CLAN programs to analyse - using other programs is eminently 
> possible.  It's maybe worth highlighting this because there was a recent 
> exchange on an R (stats language) list where the OP seemed to be under the 
> impression that CHAT files could ONLY be handled by CLAN - in fact, R will 
> consume them with no problem at all, just as it will consume any other text 
> file.
> 
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> 
> Kevin Donnelly
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