Annotations

Table of Contents

Basic Information: Annotations, tiers and tier types
Defining languages for your content
How to define a tier type
Adding new tier types
Changing tier types
Deleting tier types
Importing tier types
Associating a tier type with a Data Category
How to define a tier and its attributes
Adding new tiers
Importing tiers
Creating a tier using the Silence Recognizer
Changing tier attributes
Deleting tiers
Merging tiers
Merging tiers (Classic)
Merging tier groups
Changing the parent of a tier
Managing tiers for Participants
Add New Participant
Adding depending tiers to participants' tier structures
Delete Participant
Data categories
Controlled Vocabularies
The creation of a CV
Setting language(s) for a CV
Associating a CV entry with a Data Category
Importing an existing CV
Using an External CV
Exporting a CV
Associating a tier type with Controlled Vocabularies
Using CV's
Consulting a Lexicon
Setting up a Lexicon Service
Set the Lexicon Service and entry field information for a Tier Type
Perform a Lexicon Lookup
Signbank lexicon service
Setting up the connection
Changing the location of cached data
Using the Signbank lexicon service
Media Displayer
Setting up the connection
Using the media displayer
How to make a selection
Making a selection on an independent tier
Selecting multiple annotations
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 and edit annotations
Entering annotations (into the Inline Edit box)
An Inline Edit box from a selection
An Inline Edit box from begin and end time
A new annotation from manually entered begin and end time
An Inline Edit box for a active annotation
Entering annotations (into the Edit Annotation box)
Entering annotations from a Controlled Vocabulary
Entering annotations before/after other annotations
Creating depending annotations for a active annotation
Creating annotations on dependent tiers
Creating annotations from gaps
Creating regular annotations
Duplicating annotation values
Snap Annotations
Automatic labelling and numbering
Modifying the content of annotations
Modifying the boundaries of annotations
Moving annotations to another tier
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
Associating an annotation with an external resource
Spell checking
Setting up a spell checking service
Spell checking
How to undo an action
Tokenize a tier
How to filter and copy tiers
Filtering tiers
Copying tiers
Copying annotations from one tier to another tier
How to modify the boundaries of all annotations of selected tiers
How to detect annotation overlaps
Creating annotations from overlaps
Comparing annotators
Create annotation by subtraction
Copy and paste annotations
Copy annotation
Paste annotation
Paste annotation here
Copy and paste annotation groups
Duplicate annotation
Copy all annotations from one tier to another.
Synopsis
Web Services
WebLicht
WebLicht with tool chain file
Information about annotations
Annotations Spreadsheet
Annotations Statistics
Annotation Density Plot

You can use the ELAN program for annotating your data. This annotation process involves three steps: defining tier types and tiers (see the section called “Adding new tier types” and the section called “How to define a tier and its attributes”), selecting time intervals (see the section called “How to make a selection”), and entering annotations (see the section called “How to enter and edit annotations”).