Brat standoff to CDLI-CoNLL Converter

Description

This tool converts a Brat standoff file format to a CDLI-CoNLL format.

More information on the brat standoff format can be found here.

More information on the CDLI-CoNLL file format can be found here.

Using the tool

Installation

If you don't have pip installed on your system, please find the instructions here.

To install this converter, you can run the following commands:

pip install git+git://github.com/cdli-gh/brat_to_cdli_conll_converter.git

OR

pip install git+https://github.com/cdli-gh/brat_to_cdli_conll_converter.git

OR

git clone https://github.com/cdli-gh/brat_to_cdli_conll_converter.git
cd brat_to_cdli_conll_converter
pip install .

Upgrading

To upgrade this tool, you can run the following commands:

pip install git+git://github.com/cdli-gh/brat_to_cdli_conll_converter.git --upgrade

OR

pip install git+https://github.com/cdli-gh/brat_to_cdli_conll_converter.git --upgrade

OR

cd brat_to_cdli_conll_converter
git pull origin master
pip install . --upgrade

Execution

To use/execute this tool, run one of the following commands:

If the input is a folder, you can use:

brat2conll -i data

If the input is a file, you can use:

brat2conll -i data/input_file_name.ann

To see the processing message on console, use the verbose option (-v):

brat2conll -i data -v

To view all the possible options, use the --help option like this:

brat2conll --help

If you don't use any arguments, it will prompt for the input file path as follows:

$ brat2conll
Input path: data
Info: Converting the files  [####################################]  100%