NAME

concatBratFiles.pl - Perl script for concatenating Brat files

SYNOPSIS

concatBratFiles.pl [options]

where option can be --help --man --verbose

OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

--input-dir <filename>, -d <filename>

Specification of the name of the directory containing the input files. Several directories can be specified.

--input-file <filename>, -i <filename>

Specification of the name of an input file (either the text or annotation file). Several input files can be specified.

--output-file <filename>, -o <filename>

Specification of the name of the output files (either the text or annotation file). The filename can be - to print the results on the standard output.

--file-list <filename>, -l <filename>

Specification of the list of files to concatenate. Each line contains one file name.

--help

print help message for using concatBratFiles.pl

--man

print man page of concatBratFiles.pl

--verbose

Go into the verbose mode

DESCRIPTION

This script concatenates several files which have been annotated with Brat (<http://brat.nlplab.org/>). Two output files are created: a text file which contains all the input text files, and a annotation file which contains all the annotations of the input files. Annotations are merged and their offset are shift.

It is required the name of the output file has the txt or ann extension.

If no output files are specified, the concatenated files (text and annotations) are printed on the standard output.

EXAMPLES

Concatenation of all the files in the directory examples and print text in the file concat1.txt and the annotations in the file concat1.ann.

concatBratFiles.pl -d examples -o concat1.ann

Concatenation of all the three files and print text in the file concatFile.txt and the annotations in the file concatFile.ann.

concatBratFiles.pl -i examples/taln-2012-long-001-resume.txt -i examples/taln-2012-long-002-resume.ann -i examples/taln-2012-long-003-resume.txt -o concatFile.txt

Concatenation of all the files indicated in examples/list.txt and print text in the file concat2.txt and the annotations in the file concat2.ann.

concatBratFiles.pl -l examples/list.txt -o concat2.ann

SEE ALSO

http://brat.nlplab.org/

AUTHOR

Thierry Hamon, <hamon@limsi.fr>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2015 Thierry Hamon

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.