Converting doc transcripts to CHAT; Cylliric alphabet; inconvenient special symbols

[bartsch]

Dear all,

In behalf of a colleague working with a large corpus of Bulgarian
transcripts, I'd like to ask for help with regard to following issues:

1. Is there any efficient way to painlessly convert transcripts originally
written with Word (.doc) to CHAT transcripts? Which kind of corrections
might be necessary after converting?

2. We attempted to produce CHAT transcripts by copying&pasting from Word
files to CHAT files. One problem was that the Cylliric letters got lost in
the copy & paste action. We are wondering whether this has something to do
with the computer being used. I hadn't this problem with my PC (Windows
Vista), while my colleague has a Mac (OS X 10.4.11).

3. Another problem observed by copying & pasting was the generation of
unwanted symbols in the CHAT file.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks and kind regards,
Susanna


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Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Centre for General Linguistics
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Germany
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