Consulting a Lexicon
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In addition to the web based lexicon services described here, ELAN (version 5 and higher) also contains a built-in lexicon component, available as part of the Interlinearization mode. See section the section called “Lexicons”. |
To improve consistency an annotator can use a controlled vocabulary (CV). From a CV an entry can be selected that serves as annotation value. Sometimes, however, it is not immediately clear what CV entry should be selected given a certain media fragment. In that case looking up a proposed annotation in a relevant lexicon could help to make a decision. ELAN enables the user to perform lookups in lexicons through the following steps:
Set up a new Lexicon Service (see the section called “Setting up a Lexicon Service”).
Enhance a Tier Type so that it's tiers can do a lexicon lookup (sec the section called “Set the Lexicon Service and entry field information for a Tier Type”).
Perform the lookup (see the section called “Perform a Lexicon Lookup”).