align-tag-fixer

This project contains an alternate version of the prepare_transcripts module from the ALIGN package. The motivation is to allow the user to add single custom phrases such as "a_little_bit" or "go_ahead" that the default Penn tagger would split into multiple words.

The tagfixer module relies on the user providing:

1. a folder with Clan .cut files, containing the custom phrases, together with the corresponding chat-style tag. See the examples under samples/my-project/cut_files
2. a lookup table with a translation from chat to Penn format. An example is located in the res folder of this repository.

The module contains two functions:

1. chat2penn, which creates a csv file with the custom phrases from the .cut files
2. prepare_transcripts, which is exactly the same as the ALIGN function of the same the same name, but with the added feature of tagging the custom phrases with Penn-style tags.

See demo.ipynb in the samples folder for usage.