DiscourseData

class polyglotdb.io.discoursedata.DiscourseData(name, annotation_types, hierarchy)

Class for collecting information about a discourse to be loaded

Parameters

namestr

Identifier for the discourse

annotation_typeslist

List of BaseAnnotationType objects

hierarchyHierarchy

Details of how linguistic types relate to one another

Attributes

namestr

Identifier for the discourse

datadict

Dictionary containing BaseAnnotationType objects indexed by their name

segment_typestr or None

Identifier of the segment linguistic annotation, if it exists

wav_pathstr or None

Path to sound file if it exists

Methods

__init__(name, annotation_types, hierarchy)
highest_to_lowest()	orders hierarchy highest to lowest
items()	Returns tuple of items in corpus
keys()	Returns corpus keys
types(corpus_name)	Get all the types in the discourse and return them along with header information
values()	Returns tuple of values in corpus