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TextToEaf

Converts time-aligned plain text .txt transcripts to ELAN .eaf files

The plain text transcript must include synchronisation information

  • i.e. time codes - and must end in a timecode, indicating the end time

of the last utterance.

Consecutive lines without intervening time codes will be merged into one

ELAN annotation.

Check the –timestampFormat setting matches your time codes.

This setting uses Java SimpleDateFormat format:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/index.html?java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Deserializing from “Plain Text Document” text/plain

Command-line configuration parameters for deserialization:
--commentLayer=Layer Commentary
--noiseLayer=Layer Background noises
--lexicalLayer=Layer Lexical tags
--pronounceLayer=Layer Non-standard pronunciation tags
--orthographyLayer=Layer Orthography
--useConventions=Boolean Whether to use text conventions for comment, noise, lexical, and pronounce annotations
--maxParticipantLength=Integer The maximum length of a participant name
--maxHeaderLines=Integer The maximum number of lines in a meta-data header
--participantFormat=String Format for marking a change of turn within the transcript body - e.g. {0}:, where {0} is a place-holder for the participant ID/name
--metaDataFormat=String Format for a meta-data line in the header - e.g. {0}={1}, where {0} is a place-holder for the attribute name or key, and {1} is a place-holder for the attribute value
--tagFormat=String Output format for tags - e.g. {0}_{1} for output like ‘the_DET’, where {0} is a place-holder for the word, and {1} is a place-holder for annotation label
--includeMissingTags=Boolean Whether to output missing tags with Tag Format, e.g. if the word ‘the’ has no tag, setting this to true will output ‘the_’, and false will output ‘the’.
--timestampFormat=String Format for a time stamp - e.g. HH:mm:ss.SSS
--nonWordPattern=String Regular expression to identify non-word characters for joining to a neighboring words e.g. (([0-9]+.[0-9]+)) ([\p{Punct}&&[^_]]) - set this blank to simply tokenize on spaces.

Serializing to “ELAN EAF Transcript” text/x-eaf+xml

Command-line configuration parameters for serialization:
--commentLayer=Layer Commentary
--noiseLayer=Layer Noise annotations
--lexicalLayer=Layer Lexical tags
--pronounceLayer=Layer Manual pronunciation tags
--authorLayer=Layer Name of transcriber
--dateLayer=Layer Document date
--languageLayer=Layer The language of the whole transcript
--phraseLanguageLayer=Layer For tagging individual phrases with a language
--useConventions=Boolean Whether to use text conventions for comment, noise, lexical, and pronounce annotations
--ignoreBlankAnnotations=Boolean Whether to skip annotations with no label, or process them
--minimumTurnPauseLength=Double Minimum amount of time between two turns by the same speaker, with no intervening speaker, for which the inter-turn pause counts as a turn change boundary. If the pause is shorter than this, the turns are merged into one.