This is a vim syntax file for the CHAT transcription format, which is used in many spoken language corpora, such as CHILDES, TalkBank, and SBCSAE.
This is very much a work in progress, as I slowly work my way through the spec and through corpus data.
Vim-chat features semantic highlighting of participants: each participant gets a unique color, up to 16. The following colors are built in, and work well with the handful of color schemes I've tested.
Just git clone git://github.com/klapheke/vim-chat.git ~/.vim/bundle/vim-chat/
Add the following to your .vimrc:
" CHAT transcription syntax
Plugin 'klapheke/vim-chat'MacWhinney, B. (2000). The CHILDES Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk. 3rd Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates