code: def convert_bio_tags_to_conll_format(labels: List[str]):
      
      sentence_length = len(labels)
      conll_labels = []
      for i, label in enumerate(labels):
          if label == "O":
              conll_labels.append("*")
              continue
          new_label = "*"
          # Are we at the beginning of a new span, at the first word in the sentence,
          # or is the label different from the previous one? If so, we are seeing a new label.
          if label[0] == "B" or i == 0 or label[1:] != labels[i - 1][1:]:
              new_label = "(" + label[2:] + new_label
          # Are we at the end of the sentence, is the next word a new span, or is the next
          # word not in a span? If so, we need to close the label span.
          if i == sentence_length - 1 or labels[i + 1][0] == "B" or label[1:] != labels[i + 1][1:]:
              new_label = new_label + ")"
          conll_labels.append(new_label)
      return conll_labels
docs: Converts BIO formatted SRL tags to the format required for evaluation with the
      official CONLL 2005 perl script. Spans are represented by bracketed labels,
      with the labels of words inside spans being the same as those outside spans.
      Beginning spans always have a opening bracket and a closing asterisk (e.g. "(ARG-1*" )
      and closing spans always have a closing bracket (e.g. "*)" ). This applies even for
      length 1 spans, (e.g "(ARG-0*)").
  
      A full example of the conversion performed:
  
      [B-ARG-1, I-ARG-1, I-ARG-1, I-ARG-1, I-ARG-1, O]
      [ "(ARG-1*", "*", "*", "*", "*)", "*"]
  
      Parameters
      ----------
      labels : List[str], required.
          A list of BIO tags to convert to the CONLL span based format.
  
      Returns
      -------
      A list of labels in the CONLL span based format.