Export .cha ro .json

[Franklin Chen]

It happens that I am very close to having a CHAT to JSON tool to replace
the legacy XML converter (Chatter) we currently have.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM John Kowalski <jkau at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Siddhi,
>   Leonid and I are working on a special subset of CHAT made for
> TalkBankDB, but Franklin Chen is working on a general/complete JSON version
> of CHAT files and he may be able to help.
>
> -John
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM siddhi patel <siddhi.patel24 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Thank you Dr. Macwhinney for looping John Kowalski and Leonid Spektor hand
>> Leonid to the thread.
>>
>> Hi John Kowalski,
>>
>> Me and my colleagues (Shijian Deng, copied to the email) were actually
>> trying to figure out if we could convert the CLAN files (.cha) to (.json).
>> Could you please guide us on the steps that might be involved ?
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your help
>>
>> Best,
>> Siddhi
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Siddhi,
>>>     John Kowalski and Leonid Spektor have nearly completed a converter
>>> from CHAT to JSON.  I don’t know whether or not it can easily be made
>>> available.  I am copying to John to see.
>>>
>>> — Brian MacWhinney
>>> Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology,
>>> Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU
>>>
>>> On Nov 14, 2025, at 4:30 PM, siddhi patel <siddhi.patel24 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>> How can we export annotations from CLAN to .json?
>>>
>>> JSON is an open standard file format and data interchange format that
>>> uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of
>>> name–value pairs and arrays.
>>> Wikipedia info about JSON <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Siddhi Patel
>>>
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