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Finally, an alignment data import tool recently added to CWB is cwb-align-tmx2beads. This is part of the CWB/Perl package. Its purpose is to generate beadfiles from corpus texts in the TMX format. TMX is a fairly common XML-based system for storing alignment data that is very different to the CWB representation. cwb-align-tmx2beads is not fully documented here because it remains experimental (as of version 3.5.0), but an explanation of its operation is contained within the POD documentation sections of the Perl script itself.
The beadfile generated by cwb-align-tmx2beads can be used with cwb-align-import as described in the previous section.