Issues

• Pluggable embedding backend — allow OpenAI (and other) encoders alongside Sentence-Transformers

  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#368 · Filter by author aminsmd opened on Apr 20, 2026
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• Check for Completely Correlated/Redundant Features and Remove Them

  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#366 · Filter by author xehu opened on Dec 12, 2025 · Behavioral Research Methods R&R

• Update website and clean documentation

  documentationpriority 2
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#365 · Filter by author xehu opened on Dec 2, 2025 · Behavioral Research Methods R&R
  

• Create FeatureBuilder Log File

  priority 1
  Feature

  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#364 · Filter by author xehu opened on Dec 2, 2025 · Behavioral Research Methods R&R
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• Improve Emoji recognition and counting

  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#360 · Filter by author sundy1994 opened on Jun 12, 2025
  

• Vector preprocessing happens during initialization rather than after calling .featurize() (Should it be moved?)

  question
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#358 · Filter by author xehu opened on Jun 5, 2025
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• Allow the user to ONLY calculate aggregates while reading in an existing utterance-level dataframe

  enhancementfuture
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#357 · Filter by author xehu opened on May 29, 2025
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• Have the FeatureBuilder export CSV's once completed, rather than at the very end

  enhancement
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#356 · Filter by author xehu opened on May 29, 2025
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• Implementation: A version of Gini/Airtime based on Timestamps rather than Content

  enhancementimplementation
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#355 · Filter by author xehu opened on May 29, 2025
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• Clean up Dependency Checking and Ensure Full Function Modularity

  dependenciespriority 2
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#353 · Filter by author xehu opened on May 23, 2025 · Behavioral Research Methods R&R
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• Make it possible for people to build a ‘local’ FB custom class

  future
  Feature

  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#349 · Filter by author xehu opened on Apr 7, 2025

• Extraneous columns (e.g., metadata not related to the FeatureBuilder inputs) with different types can cause FB to fail

  bug
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#342 · Filter by author xehu opened on Jan 3, 2025
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• Make Politeness Documentation More Readable / Fix Typos

  documentation
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#329 · Filter by author xehu opened on Nov 21, 2024 · Behavioral Research Methods R&R

• Implementation: Linguistic Alignment (e.g., WHAM)

  implementation
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#323 · Filter by author xehu opened on Oct 28, 2024
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• Deliver features to end users of the package in chunks

  enhancementpriority 2
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#288 · Filter by author yashveersinghsohi opened on Aug 30, 2024 · Improve Package Functionality/Usability

• Add time constraints to new and existing features

  enhancementfuture
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#287 · Filter by author yashveersinghsohi opened on Aug 30, 2024 · Improve Package Functionality/Usability

• Allow Users to Append New Features to Previously Generated Features

  enhancementpriority 2
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#285 · Filter by author PriyaDCosta opened on Aug 28, 2024 · Improve Package Functionality/Usability
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• Implementation: Transactive Memory System (TMS) Strength Lexicon, from Kush (2023)

  implementationpriority 1
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#284 · Filter by author xehu opened on Aug 16, 2024 · Improve Feature Set

• Add Data-Specific Constraints About Which Features Should Get Generated

  enhancementfuture
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#283 · Filter by author xehu opened on Aug 16, 2024 · Improve Package Functionality/Usability

• Generate features at the speaker/conversation level based on the aggregated *text*, not just aggregating *statistics*

  enhancementfutureimplementation
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#282 · Filter by author xehu opened on Aug 16, 2024 · Improve Package Functionality/Usability

• Allow users to choose features they do NOT want

  enhancementpriority 2
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#261 · Filter by author xehu opened on Jul 24, 2024 · Improve Package Functionality/Usability

• Resolve User-Level Summary Statistics TODO

  enhancement
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#233 · Filter by author xehu opened on Jun 18, 2024 · Improve Package Functionality/Usability

• Add tests for irregular (or improper) data inputs

  testing
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#221 · Filter by author xehu opened on May 29, 2024 · Improve Infrastructure Robustness
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• Get Tests to 100%

  testing
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#220 · Filter by author xehu opened on May 26, 2024 · Improve Infrastructure Robustness
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• Create More User-Friendly examples/

  documentationenhancementpriority 1
  Watts-Lab/team_comm_tools#208 · Filter by author xehu opened on Apr 23, 2024 · Improve Package Functionality/Usability