def METHOD_NAME():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description="convert raw text to tokenized text",
        formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter, )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--nchar",
        "-n",
        default=1,
        type=int,
        help="number of characters to split, i.e., \
                        aabb -> a a b b with -n 1 and aa bb with -n 2", )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--skip-ncols", "-s", default=0, type=int, help="skip first n columns")
    parser.add_argument(
        "--space", default="<space>", type=str, help="space symbol")
    parser.add_argument(
        "--non-lang-syms",
        "-l",
        default=None,
        type=str,
        help="list of non-linguistic symobles, e.g., <NOISE> etc.", )
    parser.add_argument(
        "text", type=str, default=False, nargs="?", help="input text")
    parser.add_argument(
        "--trans_type",
        "-t",
        type=str,
        default="char",
        choices=["char", "phn"],
        help="""Transcript type. char/phn. e.g., for TIMIT FADG0_SI1279 -
                        If trans_type is char,
                        read from SI1279.WRD file -> "bricks are an alternative"
                        Else if trans_type is phn,
                        read from SI1279.PHN file -> "sil b r ih sil k s aa r er n aa l
                        sil t er n ih sil t ih v sil" """, )
    return parser