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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
      • 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
    • 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