DiscourseData

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

Class for collecting information about a discourse to be loaded

Parameters:

name : str

Identifier for the discourse

annotation_types : list

List of BaseAnnotationType objects

hierarchy : Hierarchy

Details of how linguistic types relate to one another

Attributes:

name : str

Identifier for the discourse

data : dict

Dictionary containing BaseAnnotationType objects indexed by their name

segment_type : str or None

Identifier of the segment linguistic annotation, if it exists

wav_path : str or None

Path to sound file if it exists

Methods

__init__(name, annotation_types, hierarchy)	Initialize self.
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

annotation_types

Returns corpus annotation types

highest_to_lowest()

orders hierarchy highest to lowest

Returns:

ats : dict

the ordered hierarchy

items()

Returns tuple of items in corpus

keys()

Returns corpus keys

speakers

Returns speakers from a discourse

token_headers

Get the headers for the CSV file for importing annotation tokens

Returns:

list

Token headers

types(corpus_name)

Get all the types in the discourse and return them along with header information

Parameters:

corpus_name : str

the name of the corpus

Returns:

dict

Type data

list

Type headers

values()

Returns tuple of values in corpus