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<FONT FACE="Verdana">Dear Diane,<BR>
The SALTIN program inside CLAN is designed to do this. It turns out that there are a lot of user-defined options in SALT that will only translate easily if one fine tunes SALTIN, so there are some options for doing that fine-tuning. For your purposes, this should work generally OK. It might be a good idea to try one file and see if it is doing what you want. We would be happy to tweek SALTIN a bit if needed. In addition, we have recently added a couple of header lines to the CHAT format and we need to update SALTIN a bit to make sure it creates these lines automatically. I will ask Leonid to do that, if you are planning to use it.<BR>
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On 9/4/03 5:07 PM, "Leach, Diane (NIH/NICHD)" <leachd@mail.nih.gov> wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">I have a large number of transcripts (N = 700?) that I would like to convert from SALT format to CHAT format. Is anyone aware of a macro, program, or method that I could use to painlessly change the formatting of a large number of American English transcripts. In general, we are using MLU and the number of different word roots spoken by the child and mother as our main variables of interest, so some parts of the formatting would be less important than others. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">Thanks!</FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana"> <BR>
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</FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">Diane</FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana"> <BR>
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