extract plain text from CHAT ?

[Leonid Spektor]

Frank,

    You can use kwal program to extract any tiers using +/-t option and/or
+/-s to extract only certain codes. I am using sample.cha file that comes
with every CLAN and is located in clan/lib/samples folder. Here is the
command to extract only *CHI tiers:

kwal +t*chi +t%spa sample.cha +d +d3

>From file <sample.cha>
*CHI:    yeah . [+ Q]
%spa:    $RES:sel:ve $DES:tes:ve
*CHI:    yeah . [+ Q]
%spa:    $RES:sel:in $DES:tes:non
*CHI:    Mommy .
%spa:    $RFA:sel:non $DES:sel:non $INI:sel:non
*CHI:    what's that ? [+ I]
%spa:    $IMI:sel:ve $CON:sel:in
*CHI:    neat chalk chalk .
%spa:    $CON:sel:in $RES:tes:in
*CHI:    xxx .  [+ V]

Here is the command to extract only *CHI tiers that and to exclude any $CON
codes from data:

kwal +t*chi +t%spa -s$con* sample.cha +d +d3

>From file <sample.cha>
*CHI:    yeah . 
%spa:    $res:sel:ve $des:tes:ve
*CHI:    yeah . 
%spa:    $res:sel:in $des:tes:non
*CHI:    mommy .
%spa:    $rfa:sel:non $des:sel:non $ini:sel:non
*CHI:    what's that ?
%spa:    $imi:sel:ve
*CHI:    neat chalk chalk .
%spa:    $res:tes:in
*CHI:    . 


This output is a legal CHAT format and can be used as an input to any of
CLAN programs. Also, the output is in a UTF8 Unicode plain text encoding and
can be opened by any text editor that can decode UTF8 encoded text files.

Leonid.



On 31-07-08 08:17, "Frank Binder" <fbinder at eva.mpg.de> wrote:

> 
> Dear chibolts,
> 
> there is this simple question that for some reason nobody asks, but I
> am feeling lucky today ...
> 
> 
> Do you know of any (CLAN?) tool that allows to extract data from CHAT
> files, such as the main tier contents, and export it to "plain"
> (unicode) text?
> 
> 
> That is, I am looking for a tool that removes the CHAT from the CHAT.
> Ideally this would support CLAN's shared options - such as +R +S +T etc.
> -  to select speakers and include or exclude certain annotations and
> symbols/punctuation. Although this would probably be a one-way ticket,
> it seems needed sometimes.
> 
> Also, if there's no such tool, any suggestions or experience on how to
> do it?
> 
> Thanks in advance and best regards,
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> 



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