Export to FLEx
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Export to FLEx
Hi,
I’ve been using FLEx for a little while and just had somebody recommend ELAN to me. Having looked a at it a bit, I quite like some of the things that could be useful to my work, but I would still like FLEx to take care of the parsing of my texts. Importing texts from FLEx to ELAN works fine, but are there any plans to implement export from ELAN to FLEx?
Viggo
Re: Export to FLEx
We might consider this but, as far as I understand, FLEx cannot import that xml format (correct me if I'm wrong)? Another problem is that normally users will like to time align the annotations to the video/audio in ELAN and that information will be lost when exporting to FLEx xml format (there are no attributes or elements for time information).
We are/have been thinking about retaining time information for subsequent imports, but that is still in development.
-Han
Re: Re: Export to FLEx
I'm no expert at this, but FLEx can import XML files of the same format as those that it export, i.e. if I export an interlinear text from FLEx another FLEx user can import it (or it can be imported in to e.g. ELAN). You would loose the time alignment at such an export, but if you've used ELAN to transcribe a recorded text, it would still be very useful to be able to import the transcribed text together with e.g. word glosses, free translation and notes. I would leave the morphology to FLEx. If I had the possibility of importing texts from ELAN to FLEx, I would first export a text from FLEx in order to make a template with the right tiers, tier names and structure.<br><br>Viggo<br>
Re: Re: Re: Export to FLEx
In that case we might consider adding an export to FLEx function as well. For ELAN transcriptions that are the result of an import from FLEx that would be relatively straightforward; the FLEx elements and attributes could be reconstructed based on the tier names. One problem may be the word elements of type "punct", they are now added to the "txt" word items and it may not be possible to extract them correctly.
It will be a bigger problem to implement a generic export to FLEx, the mapping from ELAN tiers to FLEx elements is likely not straightforward at all.
-Han
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