Part II. USER'S GUIDE

This part of the manual contains the user’s guide. It is organized as follows:

It is recommended that you read the relevant section before starting to work with your own data.

Table of Contents

4. ELAN documents
Basic Information: Media Files and Annotation Files
How to manage documents
Creating a new document
Set the author of a document
Synchronizing video files
Opening an existing document
Re-open recently accessed files
Switching between multiple files
Saving a document
Saving a selection as .eaf file
Merging transcriptions
Saving a template
Changing the links to media files
Creating automatic backups
Printing
Configuring the page settings (page setup)
Previewing the printed pages
Importing Transcriber files
Importing a CHAT file
Importing a document from Shoebox
Importing a document from Toolbox
Importing a document from Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx)
Importing CSV / Tab-delimited Text Files
Importing a Praat TextGrid file
Exporting a document to Shoebox
Exporting a document to Toolbox (UTF-8)
Exporting a document as a tab-delimited text file
Exporting Tiger XML
Exporting CHAT files
Exporting traditional transcript files
Exporting a Praat TextGrid file
Exporting an alphabetical list of words
Exporting a clip of video file
Exporting a media clip using script
Exporting a SMIL clip
Exporting to QuickTime Text
Exporting to Subtitle Text
Exporting ELAN’s document view
Exporting to interlinear text
Exporting to HTML
Exporting to a Filmstrip Image
Exporting tiers for recognizers
Exporting Multiple Files
Exporting tiers from multiple files
Opening a wave file in Praat
Exporting a selection to a wave file with Praat
Closing a file
Exiting ELAN
Screen display and navigation through a document
Basic Information: The ELAN window
The Video Viewer
The Annotation Density Viewer
The Waveform Viewer
The Subtitle Viewer
The Grid Viewer
The Text Viewer
The Metadata Viewer
Audio And Video Recognizer
The Timeline Viewer and the Interlinear Viewer
The Timeseries Viewer
The Menu options
The Media Player options
The color coding
Increasing/decreasing the size of the ELAN window
Switching Viewers on/off
Show / Hide Specific Viewers
Increasing/decreasing the size of Viewers
Switching tiers on/off
Rearranging the order of tiers
View tiers by Type/Participant/Annotator
Sorting tiers
Changing the time zoom
Changing the vertical (intensity) zoom
Changing the font size
Font Browser
Editing preferences
Importing and exporting preferences
Editing shortcuts
How to navigate through a document
Accessing points in time
Going to the borders of a selection
Jumping step by step through a document
Viewing a list of annotations within one tier (Grid Viewer)
Jumping from annotation to annotation (Interlinear Viewer)
How to play a document
Playing a document
Playing a selection
Playing around a selection
Playing in slow motion
Changing playback rate and volume via the keyboard
5. Annotations
Basic Information: Annotations, tiers and linguistic types
Data categories
How to define a linguistic type
Adding new linguistic types
Creating linguistic types
Changing linguistic types
Deleting linguistic types
Importing linguistic types
Associating a linguistic type with a Data Category
How to define a tier and its attributes
Adding new tiers
Importing tiers
Creating a tier using the Audio Recognizer
Changing tier attributes
Deleting tiers
Merging tiers
Merging tier groups
Changing the parent of a tier
Add New Participant
Controlled Vocabularies
The creation of a CV
Associating a CV entry with a Data Category
Importing an existing CV
Using an External CV
Exporting a CV
Using CV's
Associating a linguistic type with Controlled Vocabularies
Consulting a Lexicon
Setting up a Lexicon Service
Set the Lexicon Service and entry field information for a Linguistic Type
Perform a Lexicon Lookup
How to make a selection
Making a selection on an independent tier
Using the selection controls
Creating annotation units without gaps
Making and saving a selection on a referring tier
Deselecting a selection
Changing the boundaries of an existing selection and annotation
Shifting annotations
Activating and deactivating the Bulldozer mode or Shift mode
How to enter annotations
Entering annotations (into the Inline Edit box)
Entering annotations (into the Edit Annotation box)
Entering annotations from a Controlled Vocabulary
Entering annotations before/after other annotations
Creating annotations on dependent tiers
Creating annotations from gaps
Creating regular annotations
Duplicating annotation values
Snap Annotations
Automatic labeling and numbering
Modifying the content of annotations
Changing the case of Annotations
Deleting annotation values
Deleting annotations
Deleting annotations and annotation values on multiple tiers
Split Annotations
Merging annotations
Entering annotations in different character sets
Associating an annotation with a Data Category
How to create annotation units on dependent tiers
How to filter and copy tiers
Filtering tiers
Copying tiers
How to detect annotation overlaps
Creating annotations from overlaps
Comparing annotators
Copy and paste annotations
Copy annotation
Paste annotation
Paste annotation here
Copy and paste annotation groups
Duplicate annotation
Synopsis
How to undo an action
Information about annotations
Annotations Spreadsheet
Annotations Statistics
Editing multiple files
Scrub Transcriptions
Edit Multiple Files
Annotations from overlaps
Annotation statistics
6. Working modes
Annotation mode
Synchronization mode
Transcription mode
Selecting the tier types for transcription
Selecting tiers for transcription
Entering text for a annotation
Merging annotations
Modifying annotations
Shortcut keys used in this mode
Segmentation mode
Configuring the behavior of the segmentation keystroke
Editing annotations
Step-and-Repeat playback mode
Keyboard shortcuts
7. Searching
Searching in a single annotation file
Advanced searching: an example
Displaying search results
The search history
Refining a search
Saving and loading queries
Exporting the search results
Search and replace
Jumping from the search results to annotations
Searching through multiple annotation files
Structured search through multiple annotation files
Substring Search Tab
Single Layer Search tab
Multiple Layer Search tab
Search and replace in multiple annotation files
8. Reference guide
The mouse options
Resizing Viewers
Rearranging the order of tiers
Make a tier the active tier
Accessing points in time
Playing a document
Making a selection
Adding/modifying an annotation
The shortcut keys
File options
Playing a document & making selections
Working with annotations
Copy and paste
Working with selections
Searching
General
Key concepts of ELAN
Annotation file (*.eaf)
Media file (*.mpg, *.mov, *.wav etc.)
Annotation
Tier