ELAN supports the following options:
adding a new linguistic type (the section called “Adding new linguistic types” and the section called “Creating linguistic types”);
changing the attributes of a linguistic type (the section called “Changing linguistic types”);
deleting a linguistic type (the section called “Deleting linguistic types”);
importing a linguistic type (the section called “Importing linguistic types”).
Do the following to add a new linguistic type:
Click on
menu.Click on
The dialog window appears.Define the linguistic type (see the section called “Creating linguistic types”).
Click
to save the linguistic type. Otherwise click to exit the window without saving.Every tier is assigned to a linguistic type. The linguistic type specifies the stereotypical constraints (and, as a consequence, whether or not the tiers are time-alignable).
Information about the relationship between tiers is given in two different places: for each individual tier it is given in the the section called “Adding new tiers”), and for all tiers belonging to one linguistic type it is given in the window (this section), i.e.:
dialog window (seewindow: specify the parent tier of the individual tier.
window: specify the stereotypical constraints of tiers belonging to one type.
To create a linguistic type, do the following:
Click on the
menu.Either go to
. In the latter case, click on the linguistic type that you want to change when the dialog window appears:
Enter the following information:
Go to
. Enter/change the name for the type.Go to the section called “Basic Information: Annotations, tiers and linguistic types”).
. Select the stereotypical constraint relevant to its tiers (seeOptionally select a controlled vocabulary (see the section called “Associating a linguistic type with Controlled Vocabularies”).
After you have selected a stereotypical constraint, ELAN automatically enters the correct value next to the box
.Click
to save the settings; otherwise click to exit the window without saving them.Do the following to change the attributes of an already existing linguistic type:
Click on
The dialog window appears.The labels of all available linguistic types are displayed in the pull down menu, e.g.:
Click on the linguistic type whose attributes you want to change.
Change the settings.
Click
to save the changes. Otherwise click to exit the window without saving the changes.To delete a linguistic type, do the following:
Click on
menu.Go to
A dialog window appears. The names of all available linguistic types are displayed in the pull down menu, e.g.:
Click on the type you want to delete.
Click
to delete the type; otherwise click to close the dialog window.You can only delete a linguistic type if it is not used by any of the tiers. If it is used, the following error message appears:
It is possible to import linguistic types from .eaf or .etf files.
Click on
. Here you can select a .eaf or .etf file by clicking on . Select the file you want to use in the next window and click . Finally click to import the linguistic types from the selected file.In ELAN it is possible to associate a linguistic type with a
data category of the ISO Data Category Repository (DCR). To do so
click on ISO Data Category
option. In the next window (Figure 5.12, “Local Data Category Selection”), first select a
profile in the left panel and then select a data category in the
middle panel. Finally click on to
associate the selected data category to the linguistic type.
More information about the ISO DCR and how to use it can be found in the section called “Data categories”.