multimodal-annotation-distance

An ELAN Python extension for determining distances between multimodal annotations.

Dependencies

• pimpy
• pandas
• tqdm

Installation

1. Clone this repository on your local computer.
2. In the command line, go to the repository containing the multimodal_annotation_distance.py file.
3. Create and activate a virtual environment of your preference (e.g., Conda or virtualenv).
4. To install the required dependencies, you can use the provided requirements.txt file by typing pip install -r requirements.txt in the command line.

Usage

1. Activate your Python virtual environment.
2. If you haven't done so before, you need to fill in the required values inside the provided config.ini file. Take care of not erasing any of them from the file!
3. To run the program, inside the directory where the multimodal_annotation_distance.py file is located, type the following in the command line: python multimodal_annotation_distance.py --config-file-path path/to/config.ini.

Note that the generated CSV files are not overwritten by the program. I.e., you should not provide the file path and name of an already existing file; otherwise, the results will be added to that file, leading to potentially unwanted data duplicity or data corruption.