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act

Project Status: Active - The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed. CRAN version

Aligned Corpus Toolkit (act) for R

The Aligned Corpus Toolkit (act) is a R package that is designed for linguists that work with time aligned transcription data. It offers functions to import and export various annotation file formats ('ELAN' .eaf, 'EXMARaLDA .exb and 'Praat' .TextGrid files), create print transcripts in the style of conversation analysis, search transcripts (span searches across multiple annotations, search in normalized annotations, make concordances etc.), export and re-import search results (.csv and 'Excel' .xlsx format), create cuts for the search results (print transcripts, audio/video cuts using 'FFmpeg') create video sub titles in 'Subrib title' .srt format, modify the data in a corpus (search/replace, delete, filter etc.), interact with 'Praat' using 'Praat'-scripts (e.g. to open a search result in Praat), interact with 'ELAN' (currently opening a search result in ELAN), and exchange data with the 'rPraat' package.

The package is itself written in R and may be expanded by other users.

Basic Information

License: GPL-3

Author: Oliver Ehmer

Email: oliver.ehmer@romanistik.uni-freiburg.de

Website: http://www.oliverehmer.de

Package website: here.

CRAN site: here

How to cite

Creating the act package took a lot of time and effort. Please cite it when you publish research.

Ehmer, Oliver (2021). act: Aligned Corpus Toolkit. R package version 1.2.2. https://cran.r-project.org/package=act

Installation

To install the package in R use the following commands.

Install from CRAN:

install.packages("act")

Install the development version from GitHub:

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("oliverehmer/act")

Load the package:

library(act)

Supported annotation tool formats

Related R packages

An example data set including anntoation and media files is available: * Download a ZIP file at [GitHub] (https://github.com/oliverehmer/act_examplecorpus)

You might be interested in the following R packages, that functionally overlap with the act package. ExmaraldaR on GitHub FRelan on GitHub phonfieldwork on CRAN and GitHub rPraat on CRAN and GitHub * textgRid on CRAN



oliverehmer/act documentation built on March 11, 2023, 1:30 p.m.