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+# KorAP-XML-CoNLL-U
+
+Tool package to convert between KorAP XML format and [CoNLL-U format](https://universaldependencies.org/format.html) including token boundary information. 
+
+## Description
+
+The state of the package is very preliminary. Currently, only a script `korapxml2conllu` is provided. It converts KorAP XML zip "morpho" files with POS and lemma annotations to corresponding CoNLL-U files with foundry information, text ids and token offsets in comments.
+
+**! This software is in its early stages and not stable yet! Use it on your own risk! It is very likely to be changed or replaced.**
+## Installation
+
+```shell script
+perl Makefile.PL
+make install
+```
+
+## Command Line Invocation
+
+```
+
+$ korapxml2conllu wpd17.tree_tagger.zip | head -42
+
+# foundry = tree_tagger
+# filename = WPD17/A00/00001/tree_tagger/morpho.xml  
+# text_id = WPD17_A00.00001
+# start_offsets = 0 0 5 13 19 23 33 37 43 52 61 63 67 73 85 87 91 97 101 113 123 130 136 142 146 150 155 158 169 178 184 190
+# end_offsets = 191 4 12 18 22 32 36 42 51 61 62 66 72 85 86 90 96 100 112 122 129 135 141 145 149 154 157 168 177 183 190 191
+1            Alan         Alan         NE           NE           _            _            _            _            1.000000
+2            Smithee      --           NE           NE           _            _            _            _            1.000000
+3            steht        stehen       VVFIN        VVFIN        _            _            _            _            1.000000
+4            als          als          KOKOM        KOKOM        _            _            _            _            0.995658
+5            Pseudonym    Pseudonym    NN           NN           _            _            _            _            1.000000
+6            für          für          APPR         APPR         _            _            _            _            1.000000
+7            einen        eine         ART          ART          _            _            _            _            0.998238
+8            fiktiven     fiktiv       ADJA         ADJA         _            _            _            _            1.000000
+9            Regisseur    Regisseur    NN           NN           _            _            _            _            1.000000
+10           ,            ,            $,           $,           _            _            _            _            1.000000
+11           der          die          ART          ART          _            _            _            _            0.954604
+12           Filme        Film         NN           NN           _            _            _            _            1.000000
+13           verantwortet verantworten VVPP         VVPP         _            _            _            _            0.753983
+14           ,            ,            $,           $,           _            _            _            _            1.000000
+15           bei          bei          APPR         APPR         _            _            _            _            0.999325
+16           denen        die          PDS          PDS          _            _            _            _            0.906725
+17           der          die          ART          ART          _            _            _            _            0.998927
+18           eigentliche  eigentlich   ADJA         ADJA         _            _            _            _            1.000000
+19           Regisseur    Regisseur    NN           NN           _            _            _            _            1.000000
+20           seinen       sein         PPOSAT       PPOSAT       _            _            _            _            1.000000
+21           Namen        Name         NN           NN           _            _            _            _            1.000000
+22           nicht        nicht        PTKNEG       PTKNEG       _            _            _            _            1.000000
+23           mit          mit          APPR         APPR         _            _            _            _            0.999012
+24           dem          die          ART          ART          _            _            _            _            0.999949
+25           Werk         Werk         NN           NN           _            _            _            _            1.000000
+26           in           in           APPR         APPR         _            _            _            _            1.000000
+27           Verbindung   Verbindung   NN           NN           _            _            _            _            1.000000
+28           gebracht     bringen      VVPP         VVPP         _            _            _            _            0.999331
+29           haben        haben        VAINF        VAINF        _            _            _            _            0.999987
+30           möchte       mögen        VMFIN        VMFIN        _            _            _            _            1.000000
+31           .            .            $.           $.           _            _            _            _            1.000000
+
+# start_offsets = 192 192 196 201 205 210 216 219 223 227 237 243 246 254 255 258 260 264 271 283 292 294 302 306 309 316 319
+# end_offsets = 320 195 200 204 209 215 218 222 226 236 242 245 253 255 258 259 263 270 282 292 293 301 305 308 315 319 320
+1            Von          von          APPR         APPR         _            _            _            _            0.999214
+2            1968         1968         CARD         CARD         _            _            _            _            1.000000
+3            bis          bis          APPR         APPR         _            _            _            _            0.861721
+
+```
+
+## Development and License
+
+**Author**:
+
+* [Marc Kupietz](https://www1.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/personal/kupietz.html)
+
+Copyright (c) 2020, [Leibniz Institute for the German Language](http://www.ids-mannheim.de/), Mannheim, Germany
+
+This package is developed as part of the [KorAP](http://korap.ids-mannheim.de/)
+Corpus Analysis Platform at the Leibniz Institute for German Language
+([IDS](http://www.ids-mannheim.de/)).
+
+It is published under the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license.
+
+## Contributions
+
+Contributions are very welcome!
+
+Your contributions should ideally be committed via our [Gerrit server](https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/)
+to facilitate reviewing (see [Gerrit Code Review - A Quick Introduction](https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/Documentation/intro-quick.html)
+if you are not familiar with Gerrit). However, we are also happy to accept comments and pull requests
+via GitHub.