Batch editing participant IDs

[Elnaz Kia]

Dear Leonid,

I have one more question about my recent inquiry. Per Brian's and your advice, I am in the process of changing the participant IDs and making other necessary revisions. In order to change the transcriptions from form A to form B (see below), I created the following commands. I couldn't find a more dignified path. :-) 

Form A

@Begin
@Languages: fra
@Participants: F0001 IDf0001 Student
@ID: fra|corpus|F0001|0;00.00|male|||Student|||
@Media: f0001c05ri4_1, audio
@Transcriber: Matteo Fiorini
@Comment: euh signals hesitation
@Situation: Introductions
*F0001: je m' appelle (..) NAME NAME (.) euh (.) .
*F0001: NAME c' est mon dernier nom [:: nom de famille] .
*F0001: et ça vienne <de> [/] de Allemagne parce que mon maman <et> [/] et
mon papa est Allemagne [:: allemands] .
*F0001: <et alors je> [//] euh (.) alors mon dernier nom
[:: nom de famille] NAME est Allemagne [:: allemand] .
@End

Form B

@Begin
@Languages: fra
@Participants: STU IDf0001 Student
@ID: fra|mussel|STU|0;00.00|male|||Student||IDf0001|
@Media: f0001c05ri4_1, audio
@Transcriber: Matteo Fiorini
@Comment: euh signals hesitation
@Situation: Introductions
*STU: je m' appelle (..) NAME NAME (.) euh (.) .
*STU: NAME c' est mon dernier nom [:: nom de famille] .
*STU: et ça vienne <de> [/] de Allemagne parce que mon maman <et> [/] et
mon papa est Allemagne [:: allemands] .
*STU: <et alors je> [//] euh (.) alors mon dernier nom
[:: nom de famille] NAME est Allemagne [:: allemand] .
@End

1. To change the participant ID in the main lines in chat & text files (applies to all languages):

chstring +re +w +t* +l +s"\**:" "\*STU:" *.cha

ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.cha

 

chstring +re +w +y +s"\**:" "\*STU:" *.txt

ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.txt

2. To change the corpus name and the next field in line @ID in chat & text files (applies to all languages):

chstring +re +w +t@ +s"|corpus|*|" "|mussel|STU|" *.cha

ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.cha

 

chstring +re +w +y +s"|corpus|*|" "|mussel|STU|" *.txt

ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.txt

3. To change the optional speaker name (last field) in line @ID

*Note: These commands has to be run separately for each folder, since the ID changes in each folder.

chstring +re +w +t@ +s"|Student|||" "|Student||IDc0002|" *.cha

ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.cha

 

chstring +re +w +y +s"|Student|||" "|Student||IDc0002|" *.txt

ren +re -f *.chstr.cex *.txt

4. To change the 1st field in line @Participant

*Note: These commands have to be run separately for each folder, since the ID changes in each folder.

Tried this command and a few others, no chance!

chstring +w +d +s"F0010 IDf0010 Student" "STU IDf0010 Student" *.cha

Questions:

a) how can I achieve the last change (4)?

b) I am using batch to run the commands in 1 and 2 (highlighted in yellow). Is it possible to create the search strings for 3 and 4 in a way that it is not dependent on specific IDs so I could run all the commands in batch for all the directories and subdirectories instead of running them on individual folders?

I am so sorry for asking so many questions. I spend hours digging in the manuals and playing with the commands before asking you. :-(

Thank you so much for your help!

Elnaz

Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC)

University of Utah

LinkedIn

Personal Website

[Leonid Spektor]

Hi Elnaz,

For the number 4. you can try command chstring -w +t@Participants: +s"@Participants: * " "@Participants:STU " *.cha 

For the number 3., if each file or even each folder has its own unique ID*, then there isn't much automation you can achieve. You can create a batch file with multiple CHSTRING commands with different IDs pointing to different subdirectories of corresponding data files. But, to be more specific I need to know what system you are using, i.e. Mac or PC, and the layout of your data files directory tree structure.

I would suggest that you email to me directly instead of chibolts about it, since this is getting much more specific to your particular situation. My email address is spe...@andrew.cmu.edu.

Leonid.

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[Brian Macwhinney]

These changes seem okay. I use regex expression changes in BBEdit instead of relying on CHSTRING for things like this, because it gives you fuller control. Similar options are Atom, Sublime Text and so on.

— Brian

[Elnaz Kia]

Hi Brian,

You are right. Using regular expressions in other editors is much easier and more controlled. Thanks for the great advice!

Best,

Elnaz

Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC)

University of Utah

LinkedIn

Personal Website

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[Elnaz Kia]

Hi Leonid,

Thank you so much for the help. Your command expression fixed the 4th problem.:-)

Awesome, I will email you for more details on batch editing those folders. 

Thank you very much for being so generous with your time and knowledge.

Best,
Elnaz 

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