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.
License: GPL-3
Author: Oliver Ehmer
Email: oliver.ehmer@romanistik.uni-freiburg.de
Website: http://www.oliverehmer.de
Package website: here.
CRAN site: here
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
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)
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.