v0.1.2 - Final Release (ALIGN 2.0 Now Available!)

🎉 ALIGN 2.0 is Now Available!

This is the final release of ALIGN v0.1.1 (August 28, 2022). We've launched ALIGN 2.0 with major improvements while maintaining full methodology compatibility.

🚀 Migrate to ALIGN 2.0

New Repository: https://github.com/nickduran/align2-linguistic-alignment

✨ What's New in ALIGN 2.0?

• 100-200x faster - spaCy processing vs Stanford tagger
• Modern AI - Native BERT integration for semantic analysis
• Streamlined setup - No manual model downloads (BERT, FastText auto-download)
• Better tools - Enhanced surrogate generation and preprocessing
• Comprehensive docs - Interactive Jupyter tutorials with real conversational data
• Production-ready - Full type hints, validation, and error handling
• Same methodology - Fully compatible with Duran et al. (2019) paper

This Repository (v0.1.1)

• Stable and working - PyPI installation available
• No further updates planned - Final release
• Maintained for backward compatibility - For reproducibility of published research
• Citation unchanged - Same methodology paper (Duran, Paxton, & Fusaroli, 2019)

🎯 Recommendation

For all new projects, we strongly recommend ALIGN 2.0.

This version remains available on PyPI (pip install align) for:

• Reproducing results from papers using v0.1.1
• Backward compatibility
• Reference purposes

📚 Citation

Both versions use the same core methodology. Please cite:

Duran, N., Paxton, A., & Fusaroli, R. (2019). ALIGN: Analyzing Linguistic Interactions with Generalizable techNiques. Psychological Methods. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/met0000206

📞 Questions?

• ALIGN v0.1.1: Open issue in this repository
• ALIGN 2.0: Visit https://github.com/nickduran/align2-linguistic-alignment

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Happy analyzing! 🎉

ALIGN v0.1.1

Updated to allow user to toggle the spell-correction feature on and off within the prepare_transcripts process. Please see tutorials for details.

ALIGN update for Python 3.10

What's Changed

• Fix: ADD HERE.

Full Changelog: v0.0.11...v0.1.0

Release for PyPI

v0.0.11

Prepping for PyPI release

Updating release number and copyright dates

v0.0.10

Updating release and copyright

Implementing features: n-gram default update and expanded output

v0.0.9

Reorder print statements to address Issue 49

Squeaky-clean align version compatible with Python 3

v0.0.8

Increment release number

Polishing align for next PyPI release

v0.0.7

Remove Python 3 update note

Update align for Python 3 compatibility

v0.0.6

Increase version number everywhere