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ELAN - Linguistic Annotator
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Table of Contents
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
List of Figures
1.
File menu
2.
The New Transcription dialog window: media
3.
The New Transcription dialog window: templates
4.
Document properties window
5.
Synchronizing video files: Enter offset in 'Linked Files'
6.
Synchronizing video files: Offset of player 1
7.
Synchronizing video files: Offset of player 2
8.
Shift all annotations
9.
Open dialog window
10.
Error message: no eaf file
11.
Locate media file
12.
Open remote file
13.
Windows dropdown menu
14.
Save selection as .eaf file
15.
Save As Dialog
16.
Validation report window
17.
Merge transcriptions dialog window
18.
Merge transcriptions dialog window
19.
Open new transcription
20.
Linked files dialog window
21.
Automatic backup
22.
Printing
23.
Page setup
24.
Print preview
25.
Font sizes
26.
Print preview after changes
27.
Opening a wave pattern in Praat
28.
Save on exit
29.
Edit preferences
30.
Edit CV preferences
31.
Edit Media preferences
32.
Edit Viewers preferences
33.
Edit Automatic Backup preferences
34.
Tier Selection panel in most of the dialogs
35.
Toolbox Export dialog window
36.
ELAN file and exported Toolbox file
37.
Export FLEx file step 1
38.
Export FLEx file step 2
39.
Export FLEx file step 3
40.
Export Chat file
41.
Export as tab-delimited text dialog window
42.
Tab-delimited text
43.
Maximum line width
44.
Export as HTML
45.
Export Transcript Text
46.
Export settings
47.
Different export settings
48.
Export settings and JSON preview
49.
Export SMIL Real Player
50.
Change subtitle text settings
51.
Export as Subtitles text
52.
Tiers for AVATech recognizers
53.
An exported filmstrip image
54.
Exporting to a filmstrip image
55.
Shoebox Export dialog window
56.
Name and directory of exported file
57.
File Exists
58.
ELAN file and exported file
59.
Database type properties dialog window
60.
Import Toolbox file
61.
Set Shoebox/Toolbox field markers
62.
Store markers
63.
Toolbox field markers and ELAN tiers
64.
Multiple speakers in ELAN
65.
Time Subdivision
66.
Fixed time intervals
67.
Time alignment
68.
Import FLEx file
69.
FLEx to ELAN structure
70.
Tab-delimited Text
71.
Import CSV / Tab-delimited Text
72.
Tab-delimited text, different orientation
73.
Import CSV / Tab-delimited Text
74.
Import tab-delimited text in combination with a template
75.
The ELAN window
76.
The video viewer
77.
Video information dialog window
78.
Annotation density viewer
79.
The waveform viewer
80.
Waveform viewer modes
81.
Waveform context menu
82.
Waveform visualisation switching
83.
The spectrogram viewer
84.
The spectrogram context menu
85.
Spectrogram display settings panel
86.
Spectrogram transform settings panel
87.
The subtitle viewer
88.
Display multiple tiers as a subtitle
89.
The grid viewer
90.
Multiple tiers with symbolic association in the grid viewer
91.
Export from the grid viewer
92.
The text viewer
93.
The metadata viewer displaying a CMDI file
94.
The Recognizer Tab
95.
The timeline viewer
96.
The ELAN window with timeline/interlinear viewer
97.
The tier name panel
98.
Linking timeseries data files
99.
Timeseries Viewer popup menu
100.
Timeseries Viewer: Configure tracks
101.
Timeseries viewer in the main window
102.
The Extract Track Data window
103.
The media player options
104.
Timecode formats
105.
Color coding
106.
Changing size of the timeline viewer
107.
Changing the size of the tier label panel
108.
Switching tiers on/off
109.
Rearranging the order of tiers
110.
Visible Tiers
111.
Work with tier sets
112.
Creating and editing tier sets
113.
The Tier Set context menu item before and after enabling tier sets in the preferences.
114.
Changing time zoom
115.
Timeline zoom slider
116.
Changing vertical (intensity) zoom
117.
Changing the font size
118.
Font Finder-Explorer
119.
Edit Keyboard Shortcuts
120.
Click the timecode box
121.
Use the crosshair
122.
Set Frame Length menu
123.
The grid viewer
124.
Structure of the grid viewer
125.
Grid viewer with context menu
126.
Grid viewer with selected annotations
127.
Interlinear viewer
128.
Play/pause button
129.
Play around selection
130.
Playback rate
131.
Comments-tab in ELAN
132.
Directory settings and default comment attributes
133.
Conflicting comments dialog
134.
Adding comments
135.
A comment added by another user.
136.
Changing a comment.
137.
The comments display overview
138.
Changing a comment.
139.
Other functions
140.
E-mail a comment
141.
Multiple file selection dialog
142.
Create transcription files for multiple media files Dialog
143.
Multiple File Editor
144.
Transcription Scrubber
145.
1. Method selection
146.
a. Customize compare method for modified Cohen's kappa
147.
b. Customize compare method for modified Fleiss' kappa
148.
Six raters, two possible clusters of four and six matching annotations, the overlap in light blue
149.
Six raters, four of the possible clusters of matching annotations are marked in blue and green
150.
c. Customize compare method for Staccato
151.
3. Document and tier configuration
152.
4. Select files & matching
153.
5. Tier selection (current document / manual selection)
154.
Tier selection (in the same file / based on suffix)
155.
N-Gram Analysis dialog
156.
N-Gram Analysis dialog 2
157.
N-Gram Analysis process report
158.
N-Gram Analysis dialog 3
159.
Merge Tiers Multiple Files 1
160.
Merge Tiers Multiple Files 2
161.
Merge Tiers Multiple Files 3
162.
Merge Tiers Multiple Files 4
163.
Update transcriptions based on ECV's
164.
Update transcriptions with a template
165.
Export as Toolbox file step 1
166.
Export as Toolbox file step 2
167.
Save as Settings
168.
Export as FLEx file step 1
169.
Export as FLEx file step 2
170.
Element-item type and language attribute.
171.
Save as Settings
172.
File name & path options for Multiple Tab-delimited text export.
173.
Exporting by selecting tiers
174.
File selection
175.
Save as Settings
176.
Import Settings
177.
Save as Settings
178.
Import Settings
179.
Save as Settings
180.
Export to Annotation Server
181.
Export results
182.
List of Collection ID's
183.
Import a collection with its ID
184.
Annotation basics
185.
Tier dependencies
186.
Tier dependencies in the timeline viewer
187.
Examples of (four of) the stereotypes
188.
Add a language for Multilingual content
189.
Add a tier type
190.
Change a tier type
191.
Delete a tier type
192.
Tier type is used
193.
Local Data Category Selection
194.
Tier attributes
195.
Change Tier Attributes Settings for Multiple Tiers
196.
Import tiers
197.
Silence Recognizer
198.
Audio Recognizer detached
199.
Audio Recognizer results
200.
Tier menu
201.
Change tier attributes
202.
Delete tier
203.
Deleting tier confirmation
204.
Dependent to independent tier
205.
Add New Participant
206.
Warning dialog box
207.
Add New Participant Example 1
208.
Add New Participant Example 2
209.
Add New Participant tooltip result
210.
Add Dependent Tiers to Participants' Tier Structures window
211.
The Delete Participant window
212.
Local Data Category Selection
213.
Remote DCR
214.
Remote Data Category Selection: Result
215.
Local Data Category Selection: Result
216.
Edit controlled vocabulary
217.
Edit CV Languages
218.
Edit CV Languages 2
219.
Edit CV Languages 3
220.
Edit CV Languages 4
221.
Local Data Category Selection
222.
Controlled vocabulary already exists warning
223.
Export Controlled Vocabulary
224.
Change tier type
225.
Controlled vocabulary drop down box
226.
Select language for multi-lingual CV
227.
Suggested values are those that start with words of the parent annotation value
228.
Suggested values are that contain words of the parent annotation value
229.
Suggestions based on the exact sequence of words
230.
Edit Lexicon Services
231.
Name and Lexicon Service Info
232.
Lexicon Selection
233.
Previously defined services
234.
Select a Lexicon Service and Entry Field
235.
The Lexicon Entry tab
236.
Signbank progress dialog: in progress
237.
Signbank progress dialog: completed
238.
Show in Signbank
239.
Hovering over annotation while pressing CTRL
240.
ECVentry hovering
241.
Lexicon entry link
242.
Lexicon filter result fields
243.
Lexicon filtered result
244.
Hovering over annotation while pressing CTRL
245.
ECVentry hovering
246.
Making a selection
247.
Change selection
248.
Crosshair on begin of selection
249.
Selection mode
250.
Back one second
251.
Selection mode off
252.
Annotation without gaps (steps 1-3)
253.
Annotation without gaps (step 4)
254.
Annotation without gaps (step 5)
255.
A selection on referring tier
256.
Select annotation unit
257.
Region for modified annotation
258.
Modify annotation time
259.
Annotation length changed
260.
Changing selection boundaries with the mouse
261.
Modify annotation boundaries by typing
262.
Shift annotations
263.
Normal mode
264.
Bulldozer mode
265.
Shift mode
266.
Inline Edit box
267.
Select character set
268.
New annotation from begin and end time
269.
Edit annotation
270.
Select language
271.
The suggest panel
272.
Subdividing annotation
273.
New annotation after
274.
Create annotations on dependent tiers
275.
Regular Annotations
276.
Label and Numbering annotations
277.
Delete annotations or annotations values
278.
Merge annotations
279.
ipa-96 keyboard map
280.
Arabic keyboard map
281.
Roman typographic root
282.
Non-letter symbols
283.
Diacritics
284.
Chinese characters
285.
Keyman
286.
Ukelele
287.
Local Data Category Selection: Annotation
288.
Open external resource context menu item
289.
Open external resource context menu item
290.
Spell Checking menu
291.
Hunspell setup
292.
Gecco setup
293.
Spell checking
294.
Tokenize tier
295.
Tokenization
296.
Source and destination tier
297.
Filter tier
298.
Copy tier
299.
Copy annotations from one to another tier
300.
Modify boundaries of all annotations of selected tiers
301.
Create annotations from overlaps
302.
Overlaps Computation Criteria
303.
Annotation Value Constraint
304.
Destination Tier Name Specification
305.
Destination Tier Value Specification
306.
Subtract Computation Criteria
307.
Destination Tier Value Specification
308.
Copying a annotation group
309.
Synopsis copy and paste annotations
310.
WebLicht service: upload plain text or the contents of a tier
311.
WebLicht service: text input
312.
WebLicht service: select a tier to upload
313.
WebLicht service: select the tool chain file and paste the access key
314.
WebLicht service: select a tokenizer
315.
WebLicht service: select a service
316.
WebLicht service: result of the processing
317.
Annotations Statistics
318.
Tiers statistics
319.
Sort order statistics
320.
An annotation density plot
321.
The effect of unticking the
Fill
checkbox
322.
Synchronization of video, audio and timeseries files
323.
Settings Dialog
324.
Tier Structure
325.
Select Tiers Dialog
326.
Context Menu
327.
Context Menu
328.
Context Menu Tier
329.
Context Menu Color
330.
Context Menu Apply
331.
Transcription Window
332.
Transcription Window without showing the tier names
333.
Context Menu for a Annotation
334.
Segmentation mode
335.
The mouse over an annotation
336.
The context menu
337.
Step and Repeat configuration
338.
Select Interlinearization Mode
339.
Interlinearization mode main view
340.
Analyzer and source-target configuration dialog
341.
The configuration dialog with resolved tier mappings visible
342.
Analyzer - Tier Type configuration screen, choosing an analyzer
343.
Choosing the source tier type
344.
Choosing the target tier type(s)
345.
A warning concerning a missing link to a lexicon field or the absence of suitable tiers
346.
The choice to edit global or specific settings
347.
Analyzer settings configuration panel
348.
Lexicon Analyzer settings configuration window
349.
Gloss Analyzer settings configuration window
350.
Whitespace analyzer configuration panel
351.
The list of available lexicons
352.
Lexicon overview
353.
Lexicon context-menu
354.
The Lexicon Actions
355.
Create New Lexicon dialog
356.
The Edit Lexicon Properties window
357.
The Custom Fields tab
358.
The Sort Order tab
359.
Import Toolbox dictionary
360.
Import Toolbox dictionary showing "raw" field names
361.
Add a Lexical Entry
362.
Edit a lexical entry
363.
The Lexicon Editor window
364.
The Lexicon View menu
365.
A new lexical entry
366.
Filtering the lexical entries
367.
Interlinearization Panel
368.
Interlinear editor configuration window
369.
Customized Interlinearization Panel
370.
Visible tiers context-menu
371.
Interlinearization context-menu with Analyze option
372.
Context-menu with Add to Lexicon option
373.
Suggestion View
374.
Tooltip showing some fields of the originating lexical entry (for suggestion S6)
375.
Keyboard shortcuts in the Suggestion View
376.
Incremental, step-by-step selection of suggestions, left to right
377.
Only the suggestions chosen before are visible
378.
The context menu of a suggestion
379.
Search dialog
380.
Find with constraints
381.
Find sequences
382.
Advanced searching example
383.
Search results
384.
Search history
385.
Refining a search
386.
Saving a query
387.
Exported search results
388.
Export search results
389.
Search and replace
390.
From search results to annotations
391.
Searching through multiple annotation files
392.
Searching through multiple annotation files: result
393.
Find & replace in multiple files dialog
394.
Tier selection dialog
395.
Process report dialog
396.
Search eaf files
397.
Substring Search Results
398.
Hit in transcription
399.
Frequency View
400.
Single Layer Search
401.
Variable Match
402.
Multiple Variable Match
403.
Minimal Duration
404.
Multiple Layer query
405.
Alignment View
List of Tables
1.
Media Controls
2.
Selection Controls
3.
Annotation Controls
4.
Selection Mode
5.
Sort tier options
6.
Nested tier dependencies
7.
Tier type stereotypes
8.
Change parent of tier wizard
9.
Diacritics
10.
Annotation example
11.
Characters
12.
Character classes
13.
Predefined character classes
14.
POSIX character classes (US-ASCII only)
15.
Classes for Unicode blocks and categories
16.
Boundary matchers
17.
Greedy quantifiers
18.
Reluctant quantifiers
19.
Possessive quantifiers
20.
Logical operators
21.
Back references
22.
Quotation
23.
Special constructs (non-capturing)