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workflow for conversion to toolbox-import style eaf annotations

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workflow for conversion to toolbox-import style eaf annotations

Posted by fraseif at 2008-07-13 19:50

hi - i want to convert all my eaf transcription files to a format which uses the same kind of tier names and linguistic types, namely the one that eaf files that were created by import from toolbox have (i want this for better searchability, e.g. "in all tiers of type t", and for smoother export to toolbox). this set of tiers would be: ref@spk1 (type:ref, stereotype: none), t@spk1 (type:t, stereotype symbolic association), f@spk1 and com@spk1 (types analogous to t@spk1), and the same for spk2, etc. (if there are more than one).
i have done this by copying tiers, assigning a new type and deleting the old ones, but this is complicated. for one issue i don´t have a solution yet: ref can be created by copying the old parent tier (called, e.g., "transcr" in my case) and do "number annotations", but i have not found a way yet to have continous numbering of ref-tiers across various speakers.
anybody experience with these issues and an efficient workflow to do (all or part) of this?
thanks a lot! -frank

Re: workflow for conversion to toolbox-import style eaf annotations

Posted by hasloe at 2008-07-14 10:41

I'm not quite sure if I fully understand the situation, but normally just renaming the tiers and linguistic types should be sufficient to create a consistent set of annotations files? Unless, of course, the parent-child relations or the tiers have to be changed.

About the numbering of annotations on the "ref" tiers: once all ref@spk1, ref@spk2 etc are created you can number across these tiers by selecting the "Multiple tiers" radio button in the "Label and Number Annotations" window and selecting all ref@ tiers in the list. The annotations on these tiers are then numbered based on their time values.

Han

Re: workflow for conversion to toolbox-import style eaf annotations

Posted by fraseif at 2008-07-14 17:14

thanks han - i do need to change linguistic types and parent relations - at least on the transcription tier, which now is the parent tier and has to become a child of the new ref tier. i have used "time subdivision" in other types, which i have to change to symbolic association now, and in these cases, i cannot change the type. best - frank