edu.ucla.sspace.tools

Class ChildesParser

java.lang.Object

edu.ucla.sspace.tools.ChildesParser

public class ChildesParser
extends Object

A simple xml parser for the Childes corpus. Words in each utterance will be extracted from the XML and saved into a specified file. The resulting document may consist of all uterances in an XML file or a single utterance, where a single xml file generates multiple documents.

Author:

Keith Stevens, David Jurgens

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ChildesParser(String outFile, String posOutFile, boolean generateAugmented, boolean separateByPeriod, boolean appendPosTags, boolean generateOneDoc) Creates the ChildesParser.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	findXmlFiles(ChildesParser parser, boolean utterancePerDoc, File directory) Recursively finds any xml documents to parse.
void	finish() Finalizes the writing of documents.
static void	main(String[] args)
void	parseFile(File file, boolean utterancePerDoc) Parses a single xml file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ChildesParser

public ChildesParser(String outFile,
             String posOutFile,
             boolean generateAugmented,
             boolean separateByPeriod,
             boolean appendPosTags,
             boolean generateOneDoc)

Creates the ChildesParser. The given file name will be used to write the extracted words.

Method Detail

parseFile

public void parseFile(File file,
             boolean utterancePerDoc)

Parses a single xml file. If utterancePerDoc is true, each utterance will be on a separate line, otherwise they will all be concantanated, and separated by periods, and stored on a single line.

finish

public void finish()

Finalizes the writing of documents.

main

public static void main(String[] args)

findXmlFiles

public static void findXmlFiles(ChildesParser parser,
                boolean utterancePerDoc,
                File directory)

Recursively finds any xml documents to parse.