Given a file produced by the chunklink.pl script, return a conll2000 format file to stdout.

convert_to_conll2000_format.py

"""
Given a file generated by chunklink, convert to conll2000 format
"""
from __future__ import print_function
import argparse

def main():
    with open(args.file_path) as f:
        for line in f:
            line = line.rstrip("\n")
            # Skip lines starting with #
            if line.startswith("#"):
                continue
            fields = line.split()

            # Print empty line if empty line is input
            if fields == []:
                print()
                continue
            chunk_tag = fields[2]
            pos_tag = fields[3]
            word = fields[4]
            print("{} {} {}".format(word, pos_tag, chunk_tag))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description=("Given a file generated by chunklink, generate a "
                     "return a conll2000 format file to stdout."),
        formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter)
    parser.add_argument("file_path", type=str,
                        help=("Path to the file generated by chunklink."))
    args = parser.parse_args()
    main()