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# Before
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<span style="display: inline-block; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; margin: 0.1em; background-color: #8B0000; color: white; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 3px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
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How to prep your language transcripts for processing in ConversationAlign: </span> <br>
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ConversationAlign can handle a home brew of your own preferred format. The order of your columns does not matter. Any other data in your transcripts (e.g., metadata, timestamps, grouping variables) will be retained. Don't worry about stripping punctuation. ConversationAlign will do that for you. **Note: ConversationAlign can ONLY process dyadic conversation transcripts (i.e., two person dialogues)**. <br>
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How to prep your language transcripts for processing in ConversationAlign </span> <br>
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ConversationAlign can handle a home brew of your own preferred format. The order of your columns does not matter. Any other data in your transcripts (e.g., metadata, timestamps, grouping variables, physio data) will be retained. Don't worry about stripping punctuation or splitting your transscripts across rows. ConversationAlign will do that for you.
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**Note: ConversationAlign can ONLY process dyadic conversation transcripts (i.e., two person dialogues)** <br>
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Conditions/Precautions: <br>
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1) Your raw transcript MUST contain at least two columns, delineating interlouctor (e.g., Mary or Joe) and text.
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2) Label your talker/interlocutor column as 'Interlocutor', 'Speaker', or 'Participant' <br>
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3) Label your text column as 'Text', 'Utterance', or 'Turn'. <br>

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<span style="display: inline-block; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; margin: 0.1em; background-color: #8B0000; color: white; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 3px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
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How to prep your language transcripts for processing in
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ConversationAlign: </span> <br> ConversationAlign can handle a home brew
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of your own preferred format. The order of your columns does not matter.
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Any other data in your transcripts (e.g., metadata, timestamps, grouping
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variables) will be retained. Don’t worry about stripping punctuation.
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ConversationAlign will do that for you. **Note: ConversationAlign can
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ONLY process dyadic conversation transcripts (i.e., two person
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dialogues)**. <br> 1) Your raw transcript MUST contain at least two
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columns, delineating interlouctor (e.g., Mary or Joe) and text. 2) Label
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your talker/interlocutor column as ‘Interlocutor’, ‘Speaker’, or
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‘Participant’ <br> 3) Label your text column as ‘Text’, ‘Utterance’, or
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‘Turn’. <br> 4) Save each conversation transcript somwehere on your
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computer as a separate file (CSV or txt work best).<br> 5) Be
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careful/deliberate about your filenaming convention. The filename for
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each conversation will become its event ID (or document_id) in the
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dataframe ConversationAlign processes. <br> 6) Move all your individual
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conversation transcripts to be analyzed into one folder (e.g.,
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“my_transcripts”). This folder should ideally by nested in the same
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directory you are running your R script in. <br> 7) If you have metadata
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(e.g., age, timestamps, grouping variables), you can either append this
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to your original transcript or merge the metdata as a separate file.
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This is a useful option when you have many individual difference and
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demographic details. <br>
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ConversationAlign </span> <br>
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ConversationAlign can handle a home brew of your own preferred format.
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The order of your columns does not matter. Any other data in your
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transcripts (e.g., metadata, timestamps, grouping variables, physio
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data) will be retained. Don’t worry about stripping punctuation or
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splitting your transscripts across rows. ConversationAlign will do that
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for you.
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**Note: ConversationAlign can ONLY process dyadic conversation
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transcripts (i.e., two person dialogues)** <br>
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Conditions/Precautions: <br> 1) Your raw transcript MUST contain at
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least two columns, delineating interlouctor (e.g., Mary or Joe) and
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text. 2) Label your talker/interlocutor column as ‘Interlocutor’,
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‘Speaker’, or ‘Participant’ <br> 3) Label your text column as ‘Text’,
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‘Utterance’, or ‘Turn’. <br> 4) Save each conversation transcript
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somwehere on your computer as a separate file (CSV or txt work
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best).<br> 5) Be careful/deliberate about your filenaming convention.
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The filename for each conversation will become its event ID (or
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document_id) in the dataframe ConversationAlign processes. <br> 6) Move
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all your individual conversation transcripts to be analyzed into one
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folder (e.g., “my_transcripts”). This folder should ideally by nested in
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the same directory you are running your R script in. <br> 7) If you have
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metadata (e.g., age, timestamps, grouping variables), you can either
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append this to your original transcript or merge the metdata as a
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separate file. This is a useful option when you have many individual
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difference and demographic details. <br>
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# Installation
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