Batch editing participant IDs

Thu Aug 12 06:09:46 UTC 2021

Hi Leonid,

Thank you so much for the help. Your command expression fixed the 4th
problem.:-)

Awesome, I will email you for more details on batch editing those folders.

Thank you very much for being so generous with your time and knowledge.

Best,
Elnaz

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 6:06 PM Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Elnaz,
>
> For the number 4. you can try command chstring -w +t at Participants:
> +s"@Participants: * " "@Participants:STU " *.cha
>
> For the number 3., if each file or even each folder has its own unique
> ID*, then there isn't much automation you can achieve. You can create a
> batch file with multiple CHSTRING commands with different IDs pointing to
> different subdirectories of corresponding data files. But, to be more
> specific I need to know what system you are using, i.e. Mac or PC, and the
> layout of your data files directory tree structure.
>
> I would suggest that you email to me directly instead of chibolts about
> it, since this is getting much more specific to your particular situation.
> My email address is spektor at andrew.cmu.edu.
>
>
>
> Leonid.
>
> On Aug 11, 2021, at 20:17, Elnaz Kia <ek325 at nau.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Leonid,
>
> I have one more question about my recent inquiry. Per Brian's and your
> advice, I am in the process of changing the participant IDs and making
> other necessary revisions. In order to change the transcriptions from form
> A to form B (see below), I created the following commands. I couldn't find
> a more dignified path. :-)
>
> *Form A*
> @Begin
> @Languages: fra
> @Participants: *F0001 *IDf0001 Student
> @ID: fra|*corpus*|*F0001*|0;00.00|male|||Student||*|*
> @Media: f0001c05ri4_1, audio
> @Transcriber: Matteo Fiorini
> @Comment: euh signals hesitation
> @Situation: Introductions
> **F0001*: je m' appelle (..) NAME NAME (.) euh (.) .
> **F0001*: NAME c' est mon dernier nom [:: nom de famille] .
> **F0001*: et ça vienne <de> [/] de Allemagne parce que mon maman <et> [/]
> et
> mon papa est Allemagne [:: allemands] .
> **F0001*: <et alors je> [//] euh (.) alors mon dernier nom
> [:: nom de famille] NAME est Allemagne [:: allemand] .
> @End
>
> *Form B*
> @Begin
> @Languages: fra
> @Participants: STU IDf0001 Student
> @ID: fra|mussel|STU|0;00.00|male|||Student||IDf0001|
> @Media: f0001c05ri4_1, audio
> @Transcriber: Matteo Fiorini
> @Comment: euh signals hesitation
> @Situation: Introductions
> *STU: je m' appelle (..) NAME NAME (.) euh (.) .
> *STU: NAME c' est mon dernier nom [:: nom de famille] .
> *STU: et ça vienne <de> [/] de Allemagne parce que mon maman <et> [/] et
> mon papa est Allemagne [:: allemands] .
> *STU: <et alors je> [//] euh (.) alors mon dernier nom
> [:: nom de famille] NAME est Allemagne [:: allemand] .
> @End
>
> 1. To change the participant ID in the main lines in chat & text files
> (applies to all languages):
> chstring +re +w +t* +l +s"\**:" "\*STU:" *.cha
> ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.cha
>
>
> chstring +re +w +y +s"\**:" "\*STU:" *.txt
>
> ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.txt
>
> 2. To change the corpus name and the next field in line @ID in chat & text
> files (applies to all languages):
> chstring +re +w +t@ +s"|corpus|*|" "|mussel|STU|" *.cha
> ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.cha
>
>
> chstring +re +w +y +s"|corpus|*|" "|mussel|STU|" *.txt
>
> ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.txt
>
> 3. To change the optional speaker name (last field) in line @ID
> *Note: These commands has to be run separately for each folder, since the
> ID changes in each folder.
> chstring +re +w +t@ +s"|Student|||" "|Student||IDc0002|" *.cha
> ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.cha
>
>
> chstring +re +w +y +s"|Student|||" "|Student||IDc0002|" *.txt
>
> ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.txt
>
> 4. To change the 1st field in line @Participant
> *Note: These commands have to be run separately for each folder, since the
> ID changes in each folder.
> Tried this command and a few others, no chance!
> chstring +w +d +s"F0010 IDf0010 Student" "STU IDf0010 Student" *.cha
>
> *Questions:*
> a) how can I achieve the last change (4)?
> b) I am using batch to run the commands in 1 and 2 (highlighted in
> yellow). Is it possible to create the search strings for 3 and 4 in a way
> that it is not dependent on specific IDs so I could run all the commands in
> batch for all the directories and subdirectories instead of running them on
> individual folders?
>
> I am so sorry for asking so many questions. I spend hours digging in the
> manuals and playing with the commands before asking you. :-(
>
> Thank you so much for your help!
> Elnaz
>
>
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>
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