Welcome to Brat-standoff to JSON converter

Brat-standoff to JSON converter is a cli tool that converts the given brat standoff to JSON format

Using brat Standoff Converter

 git clone https://github.com/astutic/brat-standoff-to-json.git

OR

Download a release from here

and rename the file as brat-standoff-to-json

Examples

Converts and Prints JSONL (in acharya format) for brat files in the specified directory

go run main.go -p "./path/to/the/collection"

OR

brat-standoff-to-json -p "./path/to/the/collection"

example

go run main.go -p "./testData/news"

OR

brat-standoff-to-json  -p "./testData/news"

Save to an output file

go run main.go -p "./path/to/the/collection" --output "path/output-file-name"

OR

brat-standoff-to-json  -p "./path/to/the/collection" --output "path/output-file-name"

example

The command below will generate an output file named acharyaFormat.jsonl in the current directory

go run main.go -p "./testData/news" --output "./acharyaFormat.jsonl"

OR

brat-standoff-to-json  -p "./testData/news" --output "./acharyaFormat.jsonl"

Converting specific files

! NOTE the order of the .ann files an .txt files should be the same
go run main.go --ann "file1.ann,file2.ann" --txt "file1.txt,file2.txt" --conf "file.conf"

example

go run main.go --ann "path/to/first.ann,path/to/second.ann" --txt "path/to/first.txt,path/to/second.txt" --conf "path/to/annotation.conf"

OR

brat-standoff-to-json  --ann "path/to/first.ann,path/to/second.ann" --txt "path/to/first.txt,path/to/second.txt" --conf "path/to/annotation.conf"

Commands

Command	Short hand	Type	Description	Default value
folderPath	p	string	Path to the folder containing the brat standoff collection
ann	a	string	Comma sepeartad locations of the annotation files (.ann) in correct order
txt	t	string	Comma sepeartad locations of the text files (.txt) in correct order
conf	c	string	Location of the annotation configuration file (annotation.conf)
output	o	string	Name of the output file to be generated
force	f	bool	If you wish to overwrite the generated file then set force to true	false
version	v	bool	Prints the version number	false

Original data displayed in brat

Data from Brat converted to and uploaded to Acharya

Note

[ Windows PowerShell ] If you want to use the Brat → JSONL converter and If Brat Standoff contains non English characters Then its advised to set the following in PowerShell first

$OutputEncoding = [console]::InputEncoding = [console]::OutputEncoding = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding

Features that are currently unsupported:

• Discontinuous text-bound annotations
• Advanced entity configuration