nzilbb.formatter.clan (1.3.1)

Serialization for CHAT files produced by CLAN.

NB the current implementation is not exhaustive; it only covers:

• Time synchronization codes, including mid-line synchronization.
  Overlapping utterances in the same speaker turn are handled as follows:

  • If overlap is partial, the start of the second utterance is set to the end of the first.
  • If overlap is total, the two utterances are chained together with a non-aligned anchor between them.

• Disfluency marking with &+ - e.g. so &+sund Sunday

• Non-standard form expansion - e.g. gonna [: going to]

• Incomplete word completion - e.g. dinner doin(g) all

• Acronym/proper name joining with _ - e.g. no T_V in my room

• Retracing - e.g. <some friends and I> [//] uh or and sit [//] sets him

• Repetition/stuttered false starts - e.g. the <picnic> [/] picnic or the Saturday [/] in the morning

• Errors - e.g. they've <work up a hunger> [* s:r] or they got [* m] to

• Pauses - untimed, (e.g. (.), (...)), or timed (e.g. (0.15), (2.), (1:05.15))

• %mor line annotations (or %pos line annotations, if present)