User Guide for ELAN Linguistic Annotator
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1. template file The right panel now lists a template file and the selected media file s for the new document A new document is created with the media player s and all the tiers from the template Note A Any changes to the template will not affect any annotation files already created This can be good and bad good when you want to revise the template without affecting annotation files you ve already created bad when you want to make the changes in the annotation files too In the latter case you will need to make the changes individually in each file 21 Chapter 4 Work with annotations This section explains how to add annotations to a tier to use them once they are added and to modify them This is the heart of what ELAN is designed to do and what makes it so tremendously useful 4 1 Add an annotation 4 1 1 Entering annotations into the Inline Edit box How to create an annotation depends on the type of the tier the annotation has to be added to On time alignable tiers new annotations usually are created with a specific begin and end time On non alignable tiers annotations inherit time information from a parent annotation that they depend on Select a tier to work with as the Active Tier The easiest way to do this is to double click on the name of the tier at the left side of the Timeline Viewer The name of the active tier will be underlined red and bold When a portion of the video is selected the sha2. understand how tiers work Each tier shows as a separate row of annotations in the Timeline Viewer and is available for display in the Grid Text and Subtitles Viewers Within a tier annotations do not overlap but the annotations on one tier can overlap with annotations on other tiers Every tier is classified as a particular Linguistic Type The linguistic type determines Whether the tier uses a Controlled Vocabulary A controlled vocabulary is a limited set of possible annotations that you can use in a tier For example a tier for eye gaze might use a controlled vocabulary consisting of annotations such as left center and right these would be the only possible values for annotations in this tier If two or more tiers belong to the same linguistic type they may still differ from each other in several ways They might e describe the behavior of different participants or different articulators of the same participant e have different parent tiers e use different default languages English Spanish French Chinese etc e use different conventions or styles formal vs informal glossing for example So for example you might have a linguistic type of Free translation and have two different tiers one for a free translation in English and the other in Spanish Or you might have a linguistic type handshape with two different tiers one for each hand Or you might have a linguistic type Note and differen
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4. 230 1130 DRE Cee A selection Mode a Set time 1 second ahead 000 00 00 05 000 00 00 06 0 00 00 07 000 00 00 08 000 00 00 09 000 00 00 10 2 4 Using the selection controls There are three Selection related buttons Selection 00 00 05 100 00 00 06 230 1130 H selection Mode 1 Play Selection to only play the selected segment In combination with Loop Mode the selection is 5 played multiple times Use the Selection icon bs from the selection controls or use the shortcut key SHIFT SPACE 1 The ELAN window Clear Selection deselects the current selection Use the Deselection icon Ea from the selection controls or the shortcut key ALT SHIFT C or ALT C You can also use the shortcut key CTRL SHIFT Z This shortcut also cancels selection mode 3 Move crosshair to the left right boundary of the selection Whether Selection Mode is on or off you can move the crosshair to the beginning El or end GIF the selection Ctrl 2 5 Working modes There are several different working modes some of which are designed with a specific task in mind The default mode is the Annotation Mode a generic mode in which almost all functions are available Most functions discussed in this document so far are shown in the Annotation Mode Switching between modes can be done via the Options menu The other modes are 1 Synchronization mode SE ELAN Undefined File Name File Edit Annotation Tier Type Search View Opt
5. Edit Select Language Nederlands Nederland Arabic MLT Arabic Arabic Windows chinese simplified chinese traditional English ASCII Georgian Heinecke Georgian Imnaishall Arrangement Georgian MLT Hebrew Standard ipa 96 rtr ipa 96 SAMPA ipa ext IPA Extended Korean Standard Hangul Russian YAWERTY Phonetic Turkish Standard b Click on the appropriate character set From now on the characters are entered in the selected set c To switch back to the default character set repeat the steps above and select the default set from the pull down menu 5 Edit the annotation 6 Save the annotation by doing one of the following a Use the shortcut keys CTRL ENTER b In the Edit Annotation box click on Editor and then click on Commit Changes in the pull down menu To exit the Edit Annotation box without saving do one of the following 1 Use the shortcut key ESC 2 In the Edit Annotation box click on Edit and then click on Cancel Changes in the pull down menu To return to the Inline Edit box do one of the following 1 Use the shortcut keys SHIFT ENTER 2 In the Edit Annotation box click on Attach Editor in the pull down menu 4 2 Modify or delete an annotation value To modify the text of an existing annotation first make it active Then you can do one of the following 1 In the Timeline or Interlinear Viewer a Click on the annotation that you want to modify It appears in
6. ICO Linguistic Annotator is an annotation tool that allows you to create edit visualize and search annotations for video and audio data It was developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen The Netherlands with the aim to provide a sound technological basis for the annotation and exploitation of multi media recordings ELAN is specifically designed for the analysis of language sign language and gesture but it can be used by everybody who works with media corpora 1 e with video and or audio data for purposes of annotation analysis and documentation The annotation process involves three steps 1 Defining linguistic types and tiers 2 Selecting time intervals 3 Entering annotations This short guide is organized around these three steps and it will help you to understand and use the main features and functionalities of ELAN ELAN installation manual and website To install ELAN on your computer go to the ELAN website http tla mpi nl tools tla tools elan and follow the instructions On this web page you will also find information about software and hardware requirements Be sure to download the manual too it includes many details about the program which are not covered in this getting start guide The full manual is available at http www mpi nl corpus html elan index html Alongside the manual the website contains a Release History and Forum You can reach both via Help gt Visit the ELAN website Th
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8. User Guide for ELAN Linguistic Annotator version 4 1 0 This user guide was last updated on 2013 10 07 The latest version can be downloaded from http tla mpi nl tools tla tools elan Author Maddalena Tacchetti The Language Archive MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen The Netherlands User Guide for ELAN Linguistic Annotator version 4 1 0 version 4 1 0 This user guide was last updated on 2013 10 07 The latest version can be downloaded from http tla mpi nl tools tla tools elan Author Maddalena Tacchetti Table of Contents LES e209 0201010 0 Ree ce Rate ant nrC A toe mR Uno CAN eR arn vn en ann emer man Re Stet men on arr ee eee IV 1 ELAN installation manual and website 0 c cece cece ccc cece eee nceccecccceeeeecccnnceeeeeeeeeeeeeees 1V 2 Key cone pis Ol EAN oiner a alte tanauialcnes A A A iv 2A NMNOLALION eeen as E E atone idiara Gast an deere IV 00 ag Ac le Mee nee re ee An em RRC A en eA PUNT na ET en nT IV 2o NDE tase ticea eine eu siee sialon chet a Steeles ch eal terete ees antec Vv 24 VOM LAL E EA N aces nace ana eta ta N E ih ad ih eon EE EE de cen tne Gated Vv 2A MNOLAUL OM THON Cal acoder ds asaul an dees Ga Rnd eee en ds ee eas v 2 6 Media file mpg Wav EtG j ae i e aA ve A E A A meee V TSA lt a new annota oir Tees T fon ged Osh eri eas 7 2y THE CLAN WNdOw snsins dues cuca T A N A a e A Gua E R 9 2A Moye around mthe video audio ayie S Mae ice ees 9 27 COMO P AyDAC K S
9. a dark blue frame which means that it is active You can only edit active annotations 24 Work with annotations b Do one of the following i Right click on the selected annotation A pull down menu appears Click on Modify annotation value ii Or click on Annotation gt Modify annotation value ALT M The Inline Edit box appears 2 Inthe Grid Viewer a Double click on the annotation that you want to modify The Inline Edit box appears To delete the value of annotation do the following 1 In the Timeline or Interlinear Viewer click on the annotation from which you want to delete the value It appears in a dark blue frame 2 To delete it do one of the following a Right click on the selected annotation A pull down menu appears Click on Remove Annotation Value b Or click on Edit menu Then click on Remove Annotation Value c Or use the key equivalent ALT Delete The annotation value is deleted without further warning 4 3 Subdivide an annotation on a depending tier Annotations on some tiers can be subdivided into smaller units on a depending tier In this way you can for example break up a sentence into different words or words into morphemes etc as in the following illustration en Pe a 300 20 00 07 00 00 00 03 400 00 00 03 600 so you go out of the Institute to the Saint Anna raat subdivision of sentences into words Y ady prep art sau ju go aut af dainsttu tts za sant ana stra
10. an move that participant s group of tiers up or down as a group To hide or display a tier right click in the list of tiers at the left edge of the Timeline Viewer choose Visible Tiers and then either Hide All Show All or choose which tiers to display with the check boxes 15 Tiers linguistic types controlled vocabularies and templates If a tier has children and you have chosen to sort the tiers by hierarchy you can show or hide its children as a group Right click on the name of the parent tier and choose Collapse Expand tiername 3 2 Create modify and delete tiers Before you create a tier you have to have an appropriate linguistic type set up first Furthermore if you want to use a controlled vocabulary with a tier you can specify that in the setup of the linguistic type To add a new tier select Add New Tier from the Tier menu The following Add Tier window will be displayed it shows an overview of the current tiers and a tab pane for adding changing deleting and importing tier definitions 2e Add Tier Current Tiers Parent Tier Linguistic Type Partidpant Annotator DefaultL W POS w Words part of speech a a p WAPA W Spch_phonetictranscription English U W RGU a y o nglish U Tier Name Participant Annotator Parent Tier none Linquistic Type gestures Default Language English United States System default The following attributes can be set for a tier e Name should be uniqu
11. annotation file eaf is linked Chapter 1 Start a new annotation file Every ELAN project consists of at least two files one or more media file s and one annotation file 1 One or more media file s e zero or more video file s mpg etc e and or one audio file wav The video file allows you to view the video and listen to the sound If you want to view the waveform as well you need to create an additional wav file through a conversion program that converts the audio data from one mp e g file into a wav format In the case of multiple video files the audio of the first selected video file is played The kind and number of supported video formats depend upon the media framework you are using If your media framework supports a format the same goes for ELAN in general 2 One annotation file e an annotation file created by ELAN eaf EUDICO Annotation Format e or an imported annotation file All information e g the tier setup the time alignment the annotations is saved to the annotation file only never to the media file s So you don t have to worry that adding an annotation within ELAN will change your media To start ELAN do the following 1 Double click on the ELAN icon on your desktop or contained within the Java Web Start icon on your desktop The start window is displayed in which you can open different kinds of documents 2 Click on the File menu 3 Click on e Open
12. ate select the Template radio button and choose the template i e et f to be used IE New mem Lookin kleve 2 ele Selected Files _ tiers_template etf r lt ELAN Example Files kleve elan example 1 mpg ry ELAN Example Files kleve elan example 1 wav Recent Items MELAN Example Files kleve tiers_template etf Daki Select l Media My Documents Template T Computer 4 iii p Ta File Name tiers_template etf pe T Network File Format Template Files etf Add Streaming File 5 Click OK to open the new annotation document otherwise click Cancel to exit the dialog window without creating a new file An ELAN window containing the new document appears Chapter 2 The ELAN window The ELAN window displays the Menu bar the Media Player controls and a number of Viewers The following figure shows the different viewers and controls in the ELAN window H SE ELAN elan exampleLeat Menu bar ile Edit Annotation Tier Type Search View Options Window Help Grid Text Subtitles Lexicon Audio Recognizer Video Recognizer Metadat Controls rc C fa Vedia controls Recognizers and viewers Volume X 100 J z 0 50 100 Mm i ARR S 4 x P P w Rate hi D i 100 g o 100 200 Video viewer 00 00 11 01 Selection 00 00 00 0
13. ding of the active tier inside the selection is pink rather than blue The active tier is the one that normally receives new annotations A time alignable annotation can be created on the junction of a selection and the active tier There are several ways to do so e In the Annotation menu select New Annotation Here e Right click on a tier and from the popup menu select New Annotation Here e Double click in the area where a selection and a time alignable tier intersect In all cases the Inline Edit box appears e g double click somewhere here to access the Inline 00 00 18 006 00 20 000 00 00 17 000 K Spch Edit box for the tier K Spch D the Inline Edit box for the larn ae tier ref appears K Spch The same text edit box appears when double clicking an existing annotation An alternative method to get an Inline Edit box is the following 1 Click a time that should become the begin time of the annotation 2 Press SHIFT ENTER 3 Click a time that should become the end time of the annotation 4 Again press SHIFT ENTER An Inline Edit box appears on the selected tier You can now enter an annotation value and then press the key Esc to commit the text If you press the keys CTRL ESC without entering an annotation value you create an empty annotation To save the annotation 22 Work with annotations you can either use the shortcut keys CTRL ENTER or right click in the Inline Edit box and click o
14. e in the set of tiers e Participant name or code for the participant or subject this tier is referring to e Annotator name or code of the creator of the annotations on this tier e Parent the parent tier of this tier or none e Linguistic Type defines the type of this tier the constraints that apply to it and its annotations e Default Language in practice a property for input methods virtual keyboard etc To modify an existing tier choose Edit gt Change Tier Attributes or right click on the name of the tier in the Timeline Viewer and choose Change Attributes Of tier name Choose the tier you want to modify make 16 Tiers linguistic types controlled vocabularies and templates changes and choose Change Some changes are not allowed as they might invalidate existing annotations on the tier When you are done choose Close To delete a tier choose Edit gt Delete Tier or right click on the name of the tier in the Timeline Viewer and choose Delete tier name Choose the tier you want to delete and then choose Delete This will delete the tier along with any annotations that are on it When you are done with deleting tiers choose Close 3 3 Create modify and delete linguistic types A linguistic type consists of a number of constraints that can be applied to a tier and its annotations Several predefined structural relations and constraints are available A tier has to be associated with a linguistic type and is t
15. hus assigned to a certain type of linguistic data for instance orthography translation part of speech gesture phases etc To add a new linguistic type select Add New Linguistic Type from the Type menu The window shows a table with the current types and a tab pane for adding changing deleting and importing type definitions SE Add Type Current Types Type Name Stereotype Use Controlled DC ID Time a Refer add Type Name stereotype Use Controlled Vocabulary Lexicon connection ISO Data Category Time alignable References to Graphics Allowed The following attributes can be set for a linguistic type e Name should be unique in the set of types e Stereotype None or one of four constraint types see below e Controlled Vocabulary none or one of the available controlled vocabularies 17 Tiers linguistic types controlled vocabularies and templates e ISO Data Category the identifier of a data category in ISOcat e Time alignable depends on the selected Stereotype can not be set by the user e References to Graphics Allowed to be ignored leave this box unticked To modify an existing linguistic type choose Edit gt Change Linguistic Type In the drop down box choose what type you want to change make the changes and choose Change Then repeat the process with other linguistic types Some changes are not allowed as they might invalidate existing annotations on the tiers When you are done cho
16. ia tae ewe Yas Maa Koala Vs Uy fae eset Met bese Jeeta Jie en ed Vie Dei E est lee eee 00 00 12 000 00 00 13 000 00 00 14 000 00 00 15 000 00 00 16 000 00 00 17 000 00 00 18 000 Event i ees _ up a tree and he starts with the ladder and he Starts picking pears off the tree and he puts the pear Guso Transcri i non motion non motion Mollon m Gesture gesture 4 gestur jesse s esee 4 aese gesue 9 23 Gs Hand oem St SEF L Gs Type T motio mainat iconic em Vad a Head Gs Comm Foot 20 Tiers linguistic types controlled vocabularies and templates 3 5 Create and modify a template Once you have a set of tiers linguistic types and controlled vocabularies that you like you can save them in a template so that you can use them later for creating new annotation files A template is an annotation document without links to media files and without annotation but with the definitions tiers linguistic types and controlled vocabularies It can be created from any annotation document and can be used as the basis for new annotation documents To create a template chose File gt Save as Template The extension for template files is et To create a new annotation document based on a template follow the steps to create a new document In the File browser click the Template button and navigate to a folder containing a template file Select the et f file and click the copy to right button gt gt or double click the
17. in case there is an ELAN file caf e New in case there is a media file e g mpg wav but no annotation file eaf In this latter case the New Transcription dialog window will be displayed e g Start a new annotation file E New the selected files Look in p kleve Z i PES for annotation f Selected Files E elan examplel mpg ELAN Example Files kleve elan example 1 mpq a A clan examplel wav Recent Items MN Select a file A list of files in the selected directory Select My Doaments a ead sande le Remove or change order oe or a template file of the selected files The first Computer file provides the audio Ty File Name elan example Lwav Network f JJ File Format Common Media Files J mpg mpeg wav mp4 mpg4 mov Add Streaming File Choose from common media files or all files Do the following 1 Click on the Look in pull down box and browse to the directory that contains the media files 2 If you want to use media files of another type e g QuickTime mov use the Files of type dropdown menu gt select QuickTime files Whether a media type is supported depends on your software configuration 3 Double click on the media file mpg wav etc to select it It appears now in the rightmost box Alternatively you can select the media file name and click afterwards on the gt gt button 4 If you want to use a predefined set of tiers a templ
18. ion When referring to a selection in ELAN this is mostly about a selected time interval Every audio and video file has a time axis and it is possible to highlight a segment of it by creating a selection The selection can be used for creating new annotations or changing existing ones The most common way of creating a selection is by dragging with the mouse in any viewer area that has a time ruler While dragging the crosshair moves with the mouse and the video is updated constantly The begin and end time of the current selection are displayed above the media and selection control buttons 10 The ELAN window 00 00 06 030 Selection 00 00 05 020 00 00 06 030 1010 Dea 00 00 05 000 og oo 1 000 00 00 07 O00 00 00 08 O00 00 00 09 o When there is no selection it can be created by shift clicking a selection is created from the crosshair to where there has been clicked When there is already a selection shift click can be used to add to or subtract from the selection oe Sh ie phe inl I I I l I I I Li I I I Li I I l I I l I Li Li Li I I l I I l I Li I I Li l I I I I l I I Li 000 00 00 05 000 00 00 08 00 00 00 1 000 00 00 0 600 00 00 06 600 00 00 Motion Motion k E Using selection mode in combination with the VCR style player buttons In the example clicking the 1 second ahead button results in the selection being extended to the right with one second 00 00 06 230 Selection 00 00 05 100 00 00 06
19. ions E g a sentence with a silence can be split up into words while the silence corresponds to a gap in the child annotations 1 e the separate words e Symbolic Association The annotation on the parent tier cannot be sub divided further i e there is a one to one correspondence between the parent annotation and its referring annotation E g one sentence on a parent tier has exactly one free translation Or one word has exactly one gloss 3 4 Create and modify controlled vocabularies A Controlled Vocabulary is a list of possible annotation values or codes that the annotator wants to use on one or more tiers CV s can be created and modified by the user and can be part of the annotation document or can be defined in a separate file CV s can reduce typing errors and thus improve annotation consistency CV s give you a way of using a restricted set of labels for the annotations on one tier This both gives consistency to your annotations and makes it faster to add them They are especially useful for annotations of phonological features such as eye gaze blinks mouth shape body shift and so forth You establish a controlled vocabulary for a tier indirectly by associating it with the tier s linguistic type So to use controlled vocabularies first you have to set up the controlled vocabulary itself then set up a linguistic type that uses it then set up a tier that belongs to that linguistic type To define a new Con
20. ions Window Help 00 00 02 000 0000 03 000 00200 04 000 00 00 05 000 00 00 06 Player 1 Offset 00 00 00 000 Player 2 Offset 00200200 000 cami 2010 02 23 15 06 47 dev0 avi pear way 01630045 OR 0003 000 D00004 000 00000 05 000 0000 0h Player 3 Offset 00 00 26 620 haO sampla daka Demo material Tracker data Hi Offset Player asic Soares Ti Volume 100 La Usa Aksolube Oifswis W All Selection 00 00 00 000 0000 00 000 0 Rate 100 Lbs 3 le Oo E Use Relative Otipati l Player 1 k Payer 2 Apply Current Ofte be c Player 3 Reet all Offsets t 0 The Synchronization Mode allows the user to synchronize media files video audio time series of which the recording didn t t start exactly at the same time By setting an offset for some of the files in this mode the media files will be played in sync in ELAN The media files will not be clipped this synchronization has only consequences while working with them in ELAN 2 Transcription mode 12 The ELAN window SE ELAN elan examplel ez gt Ja File Edit Annotation Tier Type Search View Options Window Help No Type1 utterance Type2 phonetic_transcription so from here 1 so you go out of the Institute s v ju go aut ef de rnstrtju t tu ze sant to the Saint Anna Straat ana strat and then you go the other Saint nd en ju geu 31 282 sant ana stra t tu ee T EO gt P dts to sent f de taun tu rs big
21. is menu also lets you go to the Download Page to download a new version or Subscribe to the mailing list The Release History shows an overview of the differences between the succeeding versions of ELAN and can be found online via http tla mpi nl tools tla tools elan release notes html Key concepts of ELAN Annotation An annotation is any type of text e g a transcription a translation coding etc that you enter on a tier It is assigned to a selected time interval of the video audio file e g to the utterance of a speaker or to an annotation on another tier e g a translation is assigned to an orthographic transcription 2 2 Tier A tier is a set of annotations that share the same characteristics e g one tier containing the orthographic transcription or another tier containing the free translation A tier can be independent and time alignable in which case its annotations are directly linked to a time interval of the media file e g the orthographic transcription tier Or it can be referring in which case it is linked to another tier its so called parent tier e g the orthographic transcription tier is a parent tier of the free translation tier The referring tier shares its time alignment with its parent tier The annotations of some referring tiers can be assigned to the time axis but only to an interval that is contained within the interval of their parent annotation It is
22. n Commit Changes in the pull down menu 4 1 2 Entering annotations into the Edit Annotation box The Edit Annotation window differs from the Inline Edit box in that it has a bigger resizable display and supports line wrapping It is therefore better for entering longer texts To enter an annotation into the Edit Annotation box do the following 1 Either make a selection in the Timeline Viewer or click on an existing annotation in the Timeline or Interlinear Viewer 2 Access the Inline Edit box 3 Do one of the following a Either use the shortcut keys SHIFT ENTER b Or right click in the Inline Edit box A pull down menu appears Click on Detach Editor 4 The Edit Annotation box appears 00 00 24 000 rhine eh valley Detach Editor Shit Enter Commit Changes Ctrl Enter Edit Annotabian Cancel Changes Escape Editor Edit Select Language ram a v li rhine eh valley Rhine Select All a an _ Nederlands Nederland System default Arabic MLT Arabic Arabic Windows chinese simplified other ple1 chinese traditional hold prepar English ASCII The Edit Annotation box is automatically preconfigured for the default character set of the tier If you want to use a different character set do the following a Click on Select Language A pull down menu appears that displays the available character sets e g 23 Work with annotations Edit Annotation Editor
23. ose Close To delete a linguistic type choose Edit gt Delete Linguistic Type In the drop down box choose which type you want to delete then choose Delete Be careful not to do this until you first make sure that there are no defined tiers that belong to this type When you are done choose Close 3 3 1 Tier hierarchies Tiers can be set up as a child tier or dependent tier of another tier Annotations on a dependent tier each are bound to an annotation on the parent tier the time boundaries of the child annotation cannot exceed the boundaries of the parent annotation In other words the child annotations are always required to be inside the interval of the parent annotation To create a dependent tier first make sure a linguistic type with a proper Stereotype has been created None is exclusively for tiers without a parent the other types are only for depending tiers In the Add Tier window first select the parent tier for the new tier and then select one of the available valid linguistic types The Stereotype of the linguistic type determines the kind of annotation that can be created on the tier As long no parent tier has been selected only the linguistic types with Stereotype None are listed A few additional constraints apply when setting up tiers e A tier of a symbolic Stereotype Symbolic Subdivision Symbolic Association can not have a child tier of a time alignable type Time Subdivision Included In e Once a
24. possible to build nested hierarchies e g the orthographic transcription tier is the parent tier of a word tier and the word tier is the parent tier of a morpheme break tier 1V Introduction 2 3 Type Tiers are assigned to linguistic types which specify certain constraints The following constraints exist None independent time alignable tiers Time Subdivision the annotation on the referring tier can be subdivided and linked to the time axis Symbolic Subdivision the annotation on the referring tier can be subdivided but not linked to the time axis Symbolic Association one annotation on the referring tier corresponds to exactly one annotation on the parent tier 2 4 Template A template is a special ELAN annotation file an empty shell that contains the tier setup for doing annotations in a particular way but without any annotations or attached media files It saves a lot of work to base a new annotation file on a template and makes it easier to annotate several videos in the same way 2 5 Annotation file eaf An annotation file is the document that contains all the information about tiers their attributes and dependency relations annotations and time alignments and links to media files 2 6 Media file mpg wav etc A media file contains the digitized video audio e g mpg or only the audio wav data that you want to annotate It determines the time axis to which the
25. rnative ways of viewing annotations on particular tiers 2 1 Move around in the video audio An extended VCR style set of media controls is available for starting and pausing the media player and for stepping through the media The steps are e pixel of the Timeline viewer defaults to e 10 ms depends on zoom level e frame defaults to 40 ms e g for audio e 1 second e scrollview of the Timeline viewer or page The ELAN window e to the end to the begin of the media For all these steps there is a variant to the left and to the right The following picture shows the Media controls buttons together with their default short cut keys 00 01 18 636 Id id 14 ed b e DE D1 DL Dn Ctrl B To begin of file To end of file Ctri E Ctri PgUp Scrollview backward Scrollview forward Ctri PgDown Shift lt Second backward Second forward Shift gt Ctri lt Frame backward Frame forward Ctri gt Ctri Shift lt Pixel backward Pixel forward default 10 ms Ctri Shift gt Play pause Ctri space 2 2 Control playback speed On the Controls tab at the top of the ELAN window next to the Grid Text and Subtitle Viewers you can adjust the rate at which the video plays from very slow to twice normal speed If your video includes audio there is also a volume control l4 Audio Recognizer Video Recognizer Metadata Controls Volume 100 Rate 100 aoe SOET 200 2 3 Set and use the select
26. rotunds center of the town to this big rotunde and you follow then the sign zend ju foleu den de sain kle f Kleef 00 00 17 190 CAIs F Loop Mode 7 that s the oranje single Szets Se Dranja sin tl O O OO O then you follow the sign kleef den ju foleu sarn kle f 00 00 16 000 00 00 17 090 you know eh after this trajanus ju no afte drs trajanus plein plein Volume 100 l you come down to the ju kam daun tu de Rate 100 rhine eh valley rain v l lt C e J Automatic playback of media yeah that s another eh je ts na Create missing annotations 17 V Navigate across column Scroll asrent annotation to center ig and then you follow the signs and den ju folau de sains kle f kleef I 21_ g0 down ja g2 daun Show tier names V Colors only on No column The Transcription Mode is optimized for typing text into existing annotations Annotations are presented in a spreadsheet like tabular layout in which navigation from one cell to another is entirely keyboard driven When a cell i e annotation is activated the corresponding segment of the media starts playing The selection of the tiers that the user wants to be visible in the table is based on the type of the tiers tiers of the same type are shown in the same column E g the first column can contain all tiers of type orthography the second column all tiers of type transla
27. t To divide an annotation into smaller units on a depending tier do the following 1 In the Timeline or Interlinear Viewer click on the annotation that you want to subdivide It appears in a dark blue frame 2 Do one of the following a Right click on the selected annotation A pull down menu appears Click on either New Annotation before or on New Annotation after to subdivide the annotation 25 Work with annotations b Or click on Edit menu Then click on either New Annotation before or on New Annotation after to subdivide the annotation If you click on New annotation before the original annotation is divided and the new annotation is inserted to its left as in the illustration below If you click on New annotation after it is inserted to its right 00 00 14 600 00 00 14 800 00 00 5 000 00 00 1 that s the Oranje Single that the original annotation a new annotation J9 00 00 14 600 00 00 14 500 00 00 T00 00 00 15 200 06 inserted to the right tha s the Oranje Single of the old annotation that s the Set e Nt New annotation after Va F This option is only available for those tiers that are assigned to the stereotypes Time Subdivision and Symbolic Subdivision An annotation is always subdivided into two units If you need further subdivisions repeat the steps above 26
28. t tiers for grammatical ethnographic and working notes Thus you have complete control over what tiers linguistic types and controlled vocabularies you use to annotate a particular video how the tiers depend on each other and how the tiers are displayed When you start work on a new video it is helpful to base the annotation file on a template which contains a predefined set of tiers linguistic types and controlled vocabularies see But there is often reason to add new tiers or types rearrange them or make other changes The following section explains how to do so 3 1 Control how tiers are displayed You can control which tiers are displayed and in what order There are two ways to rearrange the order in which tiers are displayed 1 Right click on the list of tiers and choose Sort Tiers then choose which way you want them to be grouped e Sort by Hierarchy displays relationships between parent and child tiers e Sort by Linguistic Type and Sort by Participant group them according to linguistic type and participant e Unsorted leaves you completely free to rearrange the display as you want 2 Click on the name of a tier and drag it up or down in the list Depending on how you have chosen to group the tiers there are limits to how you can rearrange them For example if you have chosen Sort by Participant you can t move a tier away from other tiers that have the same participant but you c
29. tier has been created and contains annotations it is not possible anymore to change its linguistic type to a type with another stereotype The following table list the four currently available stereotypes and their main features Table 3 1 Linguistic type stereotypes The annotation on the tier is linked directly to the time axis 1 e the annotation is entered on an independent tier Two annotations cannot overlap e Time Subdivision The annotation on the parent tier can be sub divided into smaller units which in turn can be linked to time intervals Note that there are no time gaps allowed 1 e the smaller units have to immediately follow each other E g an utterance transcribed on a parent tier can be sub divided into words each of which is then linked to its corresponding time interval Annotations on such tiers are time alignable They differ from annotations on independent tiers in that they are assigned to an interval that is contained within the interval of their parent annotation e Symbolic Subdivision Similar to Time Subdivision except that the smaller units cannot be linked to a time interval E g a word on a parent tier can be sub divided into individual morphemes which are not linked to a time interval 18 Tiers linguistic types controlled vocabularies and templates e Included In All annotations fall within the borders of the parent tier However there can be gaps between the child annotat
30. tion etc 3 Segmentation mode 13 The ELAN window 2 ELAN elan examplel eaf File Edit Annotation Tier Type Search View Options Window Help Segmentation Two keystrokes per annotation non adjacent annotations D One keystroke per annotation adjacent annotations E One keystroke per annotation fixed duration Duration ms 1000 Stroke marks begin of annotation Stroke marks end of annotation Delayed mode compensate for keystroke delay ms Segmentation Key Enter 00 00 15 330 Selection 00 00 15 330 00 00 17 190 1860 MOLHO E E OL GIL 00 00 14 000 00 00 16 000 00 00 18 000 ggg 00 00 14 000 00 00 16 000 00 00 18 000 K RGU k Spch Lia test W Spch len the sign Kleef thats the oranje sin then you follow the sign kleef you come down you kno W RGU K RGU The Segmentation Mode is designed for rapid and easy creation of empty annotations while the media is playing Marking the begin and end time of annotations is done using the keyboard It is possible to change the boundaries of an annotation by dragging them with the mouse Creating and changing the boundaries of an annotation in this mode does not require making a time selection first like is the case in the Annotation Mode 14 Chapter 3 Tiers linguistic types controlled vocabularies and templates Every annotation in ELAN belongs to a tier You can change what tiers you use but to do so you have to
31. trolled Vocabulary or change an existing one select Edit gt Controlled Vocabularies in the Edit menu File Annotation Tier Type Search View Options Undo Clear Selection Ctrl z Redo Ctri Copy Current Time Ctrl Alt G Edit Controlled Vocabularies Ctrl Shitt C Edit Lexicon Services Set Author Linked Files Ctrl Alt L Preferences a ZI ua O The Edit Controlled Vocabulary window consists of two main parts The upper part is for adding importing exporting and changing the vocabularies The lower part of the window is for adding and modifying the entries of the selected controlled vocabulary An entry consists of a value and an optional description Besides that it is possible to link an entry to a data category defined in ISOcat 19 Tiers linguistic types controlled vocabularies and templates q n e 74 O Wek lt gt Edit Controlled Vocabulary Edit Controlled Vocabulary Controlled Vocabulary Current CV s POS z 1 CVName POS SEOL Part of Speech Entry value 3 n try description noun ISO Data Category When atier has been associated with a controlled vocabulary via its linguistic type a drop down list appears the moment an annotation on that tier is created or edited allowing the user to select one of the values SG Opusme tL TMI Til Tait Pinal ess Tea Viet Stee E Dass Wt Ja Keel Fst Teel a fem Vets tHe Wad E Meet Ciao Neel We S Maat rest eed Pet Tia I eo bi a L
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