curate_swda_data: Curate SWDA data

In qtkit: Quantitative Text Kit

Curate SWDA data

Description

Process and curate Switchboard Dialog Act (SWDA) data by reading all .utt files from a specified directory and converting them into a structured format.

Usage

curate_swda_data(dir_path)

Arguments

dir_path

Character string. Path to the directory containing .utt files. Must be an existing directory.

Details

The function expects a directory containing .utt files or subdirectories with .utt files, as found in the raw SWDA data (Linguistic Data Consortium. LDC97S62: Switchboard Dialog Act Corpus.)

Value

A data frame containing the curated SWDA data with columns:

• doc_id: Document identifier

• damsl_tag: Dialog act annotation

• speaker_id: Unique speaker identifier

• speaker: Speaker designation (A or B)

• turn_num: Turn number in conversation

• utterance_num: Utterance number

• utterance_text: Actual spoken text

Examples

# Example using simulated data bundled with the package
example_data <- system.file("extdata", "simul_swda", package = "qtkit")
swda_data <- curate_swda_data(example_data)

str(swda_data)

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