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ELAN - Linguistic Annotator
Introduction
Notation Conventions
Recent changes to this manual
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
Restoring a backup file
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
Modify boundaries of all annotations
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
Annotated Part Overview (preliminary)
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
Importing collections from an Annotation 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
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
Suggesting CV entries based on the parent annotation value
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
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
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
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