Converting SALT transcripts to CHAT

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Diane,
  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.

--Brian MacWhinney


On 9/4/03 5:07 PM, "Leach, Diane (NIH/NICHD)" <leachd at mail.nih.gov> wrote:

>
>
> Hi all.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Diane
>
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