word counts
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word counts
We want to do word counts of transcribed speech that is segmented word-by-word on TIER A of an .eaf. On TIER B in the .eaf, intervals that encompass multiple TIER A words are labeled as different categories, X and Y. We want a count of all words falling within intervals tagged X on TIER B to compare with a count of all words falling within intervals tagged Y. We wonder if ELAN provides a way to export the contents of one tier into a .txt file according to intervals defined on another tier.
Re: word counts
Not as a single export option, but you can achieve this (if I understand the situation correctly) by using the single or multiple file search functions and then export the results to a tab-delimited text file.
Both search systems allow you to search for annotations with any value on Tier A that are inside an annotation with value X on Tier B. And both functions can export the hits in a .txt file. The word count is the number of hits in this case. Things would be different if you wish to have a count of unique word values per X and Y.
-Han
Release of ELAN 4.3.0
