Discourse¶
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class
corpustools.corpus.classes.spontaneous.Discourse(kwargs)[source]¶ Discourse objects are collections of linear text with word tokens
Parameters: - name : str
Identifier for the Discourse
- speaker : Speaker
Speaker producing the tokens/text (defaults to an empty Speaker)
Attributes: - attributes : list of Attributes
The Discourse object tracks all of the attributes used by its WordToken objects
- words : dict of WordTokens
The keys are the beginning times of the WordTokens (or their place in a text if it’s not a speech discourse) and the values are the WordTokens
Methods
__init__(kwargs)Initialize self. add_attribute(attribute[, initialize_defaults])Add an Attribute of any type to the Discourse or replace an existing Attribute. add_word(wordtoken)Adds a WordToken to the Discourse create_lexicon()Create a Corpus object from the Discourse find_wordtype(wordtype)Look up all WordTokens that are instances of a Word keys()Returns a sorted list of keys for looking up WordTokens random_word()-
add_attribute(attribute, initialize_defaults=False)[source]¶ Add an Attribute of any type to the Discourse or replace an existing Attribute.
Parameters: - attribute : Attribute
Attribute to add or replace
- initialize_defaults : bool
If True, word tokens will have this attribute set to the
default_valueof the attribute, defaults to False
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add_word(wordtoken)[source]¶ Adds a WordToken to the Discourse
Parameters: - wordtoken : WordToken
WordToken to be added
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create_lexicon()[source]¶ Create a Corpus object from the Discourse
Returns: - Corpus
Corpus with spelling and transcription from previous Corpus and token frequency from the Discourse
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find_wordtype(wordtype)[source]¶ Look up all WordTokens that are instances of a Word
Parameters: - wordtype : Word
Word to look up
Returns: - list of WordTokens
List of the given Word’s WordTokens in this Discourse
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has_audio¶ Checks whether the Discourse is associated with a .wav file
Returns: - bool
True if a .wav file is associated and if that file exists, False otherwise