This function is available via menu ->-> .
This function allows the user to select one “reference” tier and multiple other tiers that will be compared (sequentially) with the reference tier. The comparison is done on the level of the annotations.
The following information will be present in the resulting tab-delimited text file:
The Header line with column names
Column 1- 4:
| Begin time | End time | Duration | Reference Tier Name |
These columns will contain information for all annotations of the reference tier. The annotation values are in the column with the tier name as the header, the time info in the first 3 columns.
Next for each “comparing” tier there will be 11 columns, the header of which consists of the tier name and a suffix and the column contains the following information:
| 1 | Name-ov | 0 or 1, whether there is an overlapping annotation or not (0=no, 1=yes) |
| 2 | Name-same | 0 or 1, whether the overlapping annotation has the same value. If there are more than one overlapping annotations the value is 0 (0=no, 1=yes) |
| 3 | Name-ov-dur | The duration of the overlap, the total overlap duration in case of more than one overlapping annotation |
| 4 | Name-no-ann | The number of overlapping annotations |
| 5 | Name-value | The value of the overlapping annotation, concatenated, comma separated, in case of multiple overlaps |
| 6 | Name-bt-to-bt-After | The amount of time from the beginning of the reference annotation to the beginning of the first non |
| 7 | Name-et-to-bt-After | The amount of time from the end of the reference annotation to the beginning of the first non overlapping annotation |
| 8 | Name-et-to-et-After | The amount of time from the end of the reference annotation to the end of the first non overlapping annotation |
| 9 | Name-bt-After | The begin time of the annotation on the comparing tier after the reference annotation |
| 10 | Name-et-After | The end time of the annotation on the comparing tier after the reference annotation |
| 11 | Name-value-After | The value of the first annotation on the comparing tier after the reference annotation |
The content per file
After the header, for each file there will be the following information/data:
one line containing the file name
a number of rows equal to the number of annotations of the reference tier
each cell filled with the information corresponding to the header description (above)
All time values are in milliseconds.