Alphabetical list of words

Sometimes it can be very useful to have a alphabetical list of (unique) words from one or more tiers. ELAN offers a way to generate such lists. Go to File > Export as > List of Words ... and select the tiers(see the section called “How to select tiers”) from which you want to extract the words. The annotations of the selected tiers will be tokenized (split into words) using either a default set of delimiters or a user definable set. Check Count occurrences if you want the list to include the number of occurrences for each token. The Include overall totals in the export file option results in some basic overall statistics at the end of the file. The Include frequency percentages in the export option adds another column to the output, containing the percentage of each unique word (or annotation) of the total word count. After selecting tiers (or better, deselecting unwanted tiers) you can click OK and choose a file name. Clicking Save will save the word list.