Aligned Corpus Toolkit (act)
Recently published:
Ehmer, Oliver (2023): „Arbeiten mit zeitalignierten multimodalen Korpora in R. Vorstellung des Aligned Corpus Toolkit (act)“, Gesprächsforschung – Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen
Interaktion (www.gespraechsforschung-ozs.de) 24, 67-126, http://www.gespraechsforschung-online.de/2023.html.
The article introduces a library for working with aligned oral corpora in R, called the Aligned Corpus Toolkit (act). The library not only works with EXMARaLDA .exb files but also the file formats of a several other annotation tools like Praat and Elan. It offers a wide range of functions to work with aligned data like import/export, search, the creation of media snippets and transcripts and others.