🎉 ALIGN 2.0 is Now Available!
This is the final release of ALIGN v0.1.1 (August 28, 2022). We've launched ALIGN 2.0 with major improvements while maintaining full methodology compatibility.
🚀 Migrate to ALIGN 2.0
New Repository: https://github.com/nickduran/align2-linguistic-alignment
✨ What's New in ALIGN 2.0?
- 100-200x faster - spaCy processing vs Stanford tagger
- Modern AI - Native BERT integration for semantic analysis
- Streamlined setup - No manual model downloads (BERT, FastText auto-download)
- Better tools - Enhanced surrogate generation and preprocessing
- Comprehensive docs - Interactive Jupyter tutorials with real conversational data
- Production-ready - Full type hints, validation, and error handling
- Same methodology - Fully compatible with Duran et al. (2019) paper
This Repository (v0.1.1)
- Stable and working - PyPI installation available
- No further updates planned - Final release
- Maintained for backward compatibility - For reproducibility of published research
- Citation unchanged - Same methodology paper (Duran, Paxton, & Fusaroli, 2019)
🎯 Recommendation
For all new projects, we strongly recommend ALIGN 2.0.
This version remains available on PyPI (pip install align) for:
- Reproducing results from papers using v0.1.1
- Backward compatibility
- Reference purposes
📚 Citation
Both versions use the same core methodology. Please cite:
Duran, N., Paxton, A., & Fusaroli, R. (2019). ALIGN: Analyzing Linguistic Interactions with Generalizable techNiques. Psychological Methods. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/met0000206
📞 Questions?
- ALIGN v0.1.1: Open issue in this repository
- ALIGN 2.0: Visit https://github.com/nickduran/align2-linguistic-alignment
Happy analyzing! 🎉