ELAN - Linguistic Annotator
Document Actions
version 3.9.0
This manual was last updated on 2010-05-06
The latest version can be downloaded from: http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/
Original Author: Birgit Hellwig
Updates for version 2 and higher: Dieter Van Uytvanck
Updates for version 3.2.0 and higher: Micha Hulsbosch
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I. Getting started
- II. USER'S GUIDE
- 4. ELAN documents
- 4.1. Basic Information: Media Files and Annotation Files
- 4.2. How to manage documents
- 4.2.1. Creating a new document
- 4.2.2. Set the author of a document
- 4.2.3. Synchronizing video files
- 4.2.4. Opening an existing document
- 4.2.5. Re-open recently accessed files
- 4.2.6. Switching between multiple files
- 4.2.7. Saving a document
- 4.2.8. Saving a selection as .eaf file
- 4.2.9. Merging transcriptions
- 4.2.10. Saving a template
- 4.2.11. Changing the links to media files
- 4.2.12. Creating automatic backups
- 4.2.13. Printing
- 4.2.14. Configuring the page settings (page setup)
- 4.2.15. Previewing the printed pages
- 4.2.16. Importing Transcriber files
- 4.2.17. Importing a CHAT file
- 4.2.18. Importing a document from Shoebox
- 4.2.19. Importing a document from Toolbox
- 4.2.20. Importing a document from Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx)
- 4.2.21. Importing CSV / Tab-delimited Text Files
- 4.2.22. Importing a Praat TextGrid file
- 4.2.23. Exporting a document to Shoebox
- 4.2.24. Exporting a document to Toolbox (UTF-8)
- 4.2.25. Exporting a document as a tab-delimited text file
- 4.2.26. Exporting Tiger XML
- 4.2.27. Exporting CHAT files
- 4.2.28. Exporting traditional transcript files
- 4.2.29. Exporting a Praat TextGrid file
- 4.2.30. Exporting an alphabetical list of words
- 4.2.31. Exporting a part of a clip
- 4.2.32. Exporting a SMIL clip
- 4.2.33. Exporting to QuickTime Text
- 4.2.34. Exporting to Subtitle Text
- 4.2.35. Exporting ELAN’s document view
- 4.2.36. Exporting to interlinear text
- 4.2.37. Exporting to HTML
- 4.2.38. Exporting to a Filmstrip Image
- 4.2.39. Exporting Multiple Files
- 4.2.40. Exporting tiers from multiple files
- 4.2.41. Opening a wave file in Praat
- 4.2.42. Exporting a selection to a wave file with Praat
- 4.2.43. Closing a file
- 4.2.44. Exiting ELAN
- 4.3. Screen display and navigation through a document
- 4.3.1. Basic Information: The ELAN window
- 4.3.2. The Video Viewer
- 4.3.3. The Annotation Density Viewer
- 4.3.4. The Waveform Viewer
- 4.3.5. The Subtitle Viewer
- 4.3.6. The Grid Viewer
- 4.3.7. The Text Viewer
- 4.3.8. The Metadata Viewer
- 4.3.9. The Timeline Viewer and the Interlinear Viewer
- 4.3.10. The Timeseries Viewer
- 4.3.11. The Menu options
- 4.3.12. The Media Player options
- 4.3.13. The color coding
- 4.3.14. Increasing/decreasing the size of the ELAN window
- 4.3.15. Switching Viewers on/off
- 4.3.16. Increasing/decreasing the size of Viewers
- 4.3.17. Switching tiers on/off
- 4.3.18. Rearranging the order of tiers
- 4.3.19. Sorting tiers
- 4.3.20. Changing the time zoom
- 4.3.21. Changing the vertical (intensity) zoom
- 4.3.22. Changing the font size
- 4.3.23. Font Browser
- 4.3.24. Editing preferences
- 4.3.25. Importing and exporting preferences
- 4.3.26. Editing shortcuts
- 4.4. How to navigate through a document
- 4.5. How to play a document
- 5. Annotations
- 5.1. Basic Information: Annotations, tiers and linguistic types
- 5.2. Data categories
- 5.3. How to define a linguistic type
- 5.4. How to define a tier and its attributes
- 5.5. Controlled Vocabularies
- 5.6. How to make a selection
- 5.6.1. Making a selection on an independent tier
- 5.6.2. Using the selection controls
- 5.6.3. Creating annotation units without gaps
- 5.6.4. Making and saving a selection on a referring tier
- 5.6.5. Deselecting a selection
- 5.6.6. Changing the boundaries of an existing selection
- 5.6.7. Shifting annotations
- 5.6.8. Activating and deactivating the Bulldozer mode or Shift mode
- 5.7. How to enter annotations
- 5.7.1. Entering annotations (into the Inline Edit box)
- 5.7.2. Entering annotations (into the Edit Annotation box)
- 5.7.3. Entering annotations before/after other annotations
- 5.7.4. Creating annotations from gaps
- 5.7.5. Creating regular annotations
- 5.7.6. Duplicating annotation values
- 5.7.7. Automatic labeling and numbering
- 5.7.8. On-the-fly segmentation
- 5.7.9. Modifying the content of annotations
- 5.7.10. Changing the case of Annotations
- 5.7.11. Deleting annotation values
- 5.7.12. Deleting annotations
- 5.7.13. Merging annotations
- 5.7.14. Entering annotations in different character sets
- 5.7.15. Associating an annotation with a Data Category
- 5.8. How to create annotation units on dependent tiers
- 5.9. How to filter and copy tiers
- 5.10. How to detect annotation overlaps
- 5.11. Copy and paste annotations
- 5.12. How to undo an action
- 5.13. Information about annotations
- 5.14. Editing multiple files
- 6. Searching
- 7. Reference guide
- A. REGULAR EXPRESSION SEARCH
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