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  • ELAN - Linguistic Annotator
  • Introduction
    • Notation Conventions
    • Recent changes to this manual
  • USER'S GUIDE
    • ELAN documents
      • Basic Information
        • Media Files and Annotation Files
        • Special ELAN data folder
      • How to start and manage documents
        • Selecting a user interface language
        • Creating a new document
        • Set the author and license information of a document
        • Synchronizing video files
        • Opening an existing document
        • Opening a remote ELAN file (*.eaf)
        • Re-open recently accessed files
        • Switching between multiple files
        • Saving a document
        • Saving a selection as .eaf file
        • Validating an EAF file
        • Merging transcriptions
        • Saving a template
        • Changing the linked media files
        • Creating automatic backups
        • Printing
        • Configuring the page settings (page setup)
        • Previewing the printed pages
        • Opening a wave file in Praat
        • Exporting a selection to a wave file with Praat
        • Closing a file
        • Exiting ELAN
      • Editing preferences
      • Import and Export options
        • Export as
          • How to select tiers
          • Toolbox file(UTF-8)
          • FLEx files
          • CHAT files
          • Tab-delimited text file
          • Tiger XML
          • Interlinear text file
          • HTML file
          • Traditional transcript files
          • Time-aligned Interlinear Text
          • Praat TextGrid file
          • WebAnnotation JSON
          • Alphabetical list of words
          • SMIL clip
          • QuickTime Text
          • Subtitle Text
          • Tiers for recognizers
          • Media clip using script
          • Image from ELAN Window
          • Filmstrip Image
          • Annotation Density Plot Image
          • Shoebox file
        • Import from
          • Toolbox file
          • Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx) file
          • CHAT file
          • Transcriber files
          • CSV / Tab-delimited Text files
          • Subtitle / Audacity Label file
          • Praat TextGrid file
          • WebAnnotation JSON file
          • Tiers from recognizer
          • Shoebox file
      • Screen display and navigation through a document
        • Basic Information: The ELAN window
        • The Video Viewer
        • The Annotation Density Viewer
        • The Waveform Viewer
        • The Spectrogram Viewer
        • The Subtitle Viewer
        • The Grid Viewer
        • The Text Viewer
        • The Lexicon Viewer
        • The Comments Viewer
        • The Metadata Viewer
        • Audio And Video Recognizers
        • The Timeline Viewer and the Interlinear Viewer
        • The Tier Name panel
        • 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
        • Creating and applying tier sets
        • Changing the time zoom
        • Changing the vertical (intensity) zoom
        • Changing the font size
        • Font Browser
        • Importing and exporting preferences
        • Editing shortcuts
        • How to copy current time of the media
      • 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
      • Adding comments to .eaf files
        • Comments setup and settings
        • Adding, deleting & changing comments
        • Viewing comments & display options
        • Filter comments
        • Other functions
      • Multiple File Operations
        • How to select multiple files
        • Editing multiple files and analysis of multiple files
          • Create transcription files for media files
          • Edit Multiple Files
          • Scrub Transcriptions
          • Annotations from overlaps
          • Calculate inter-annotator reliability
          • Annotations from subtraction
          • Statistics for multiple files
          • N-Gram analysis
          • Create multiple media clips
          • Merge tiers
          • Update transcriptions after changes in ECV's
          • Update Transcriptions with elements from a Template
        • Multiple file export options
          • Toolbox file(UTF-8)
          • FLEx file
          • Praat TextGrid
          • Tab-delimited Text
          • List of annotations
          • List of Words
          • Export tiers as EAF
          • Annotation Overlaps Information
          • Theme Data Files
        • Multiple file import options
          • Toolbox file (UTF-8)
          • Praat TextGrid
          • Flex files
      • Interact with an Annotation Server (experimental)
        • Exporting to Annotation Server
        • Listing the Collection ID's from the server
    • Annotations
      • 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
        • Add New 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 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
    • Working modes
      • Annotation mode
      • Synchronization mode
      • Transcription mode
        • Selecting the tier types for transcription
        • Selecting tiers for transcription
        • Show or Hide tiers
        • Change color of tiers
        • Change color of tiers
        • Making tiers non-editable
        • 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
        • Merging annotations and splitting annotations
        • Step-and-Repeat playback mode
        • Keyboard shortcuts
      • Interlinearization mode
        • Analyzer setup and configuration
        • Types of analyzers and their settings
          • The Lexicon analyzer
          • The Parse analyzer
          • The Gloss analyzer
          • The Whitespace Text analyzer
        • Lexicons
          • Creating & editing lexicons
          • Editing lexical entries
          • The Lexicon Editor
        • The interlinearization panel
        • The Suggestion View
    • 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
        • FASTSearch
      • Find & replace in multiple files
      • Structured search through multiple annotation files
        • Substring Search Tab
          • Frequency View
        • Single Layer Search tab
        • Multiple Layer Search tab
          • View search results in Alignment View
    • Help
    • 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
  • REGULAR EXPRESSION SEARCH
    • Character Classes
    • Line terminators
    • Groups and capturing
    • Comparison to Perl 5