ELAN - Linguistic Annotator
Document Actions
version 4.2.0
This manual was last updated on 2012-02-03
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
Updates for version 4.0.0: Aarthy Somasundaram and Micha Hulsbosch
Updates for version 4.1.0: Maddalena Tacchetti and Aarthy Somasundaram
Updates for version 4.1.1 and higher: Aarthy Somasundaram
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. Opening a wave file in Praat
- 4.2.17. Exporting a selection to a wave file with Praat
- 4.2.18. Closing a file
- 4.2.19. Exiting ELAN
- 4.3. Import and Export options
- 4.4. Screen display and navigation through a document
- 4.4.1. Basic Information: The ELAN window
- 4.4.2. The Video Viewer
- 4.4.3. The Annotation Density Viewer
- 4.4.4. The Waveform Viewer
- 4.4.5. The Subtitle Viewer
- 4.4.6. The Grid Viewer
- 4.4.7. The Text Viewer
- 4.4.8. The Lexicon Viewer
- 4.4.9. The Metadata Viewer
- 4.4.10. Audio And Video Recognizer
- 4.4.11. The Timeline Viewer and the Interlinear Viewer
- 4.4.12. The Timeseries Viewer
- 4.4.13. The Menu options
- 4.4.14. The Media Player options
- 4.4.15. The color coding
- 4.4.16. Increasing/decreasing the size of the ELAN window
- 4.4.17. Switching Viewers on/off
- 4.4.18. Show / Hide Specific Viewers
- 4.4.19. Increasing/decreasing the size of Viewers
- 4.4.20. Switching tiers on/off
- 4.4.21. Rearranging the order of tiers
- 4.4.22. View tiers by Type/Participant/Annotator
- 4.4.23. Sorting tiers
- 4.4.24. Changing the time zoom
- 4.4.25. Changing the vertical (intensity) zoom
- 4.4.26. Changing the font size
- 4.4.27. Font Browser
- 4.4.28. Editing preferences
- 4.4.29. Importing and exporting preferences
- 4.4.30. Editing shortcuts
- 4.4.31. How to copy current time of the media
- 4.5. How to navigate through a document
- 4.6. How to play a document
- 4.7. Multiple File Operations
- 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. Consulting a Lexicon
- 5.7. How to make a selection
- 5.7.1. Making a selection on an independent tier
- 5.7.2. Using the selection controls
- 5.7.3. Creating annotation units without gaps
- 5.7.4. Making and saving a selection on a referring tier
- 5.7.5. Deselecting a selection
- 5.7.6. Changing the boundaries of an existing selection and annotation
- 5.7.7. Shifting annotations
- 5.7.8. Activating and deactivating the Bulldozer mode or Shift mode
- 5.8. How to enter annotations
- 5.8.1. Entering annotations (into the Inline Edit box)
- 5.8.2. Entering annotations (into the Edit Annotation box)
- 5.8.3. Entering annotations from a Controlled Vocabulary
- 5.8.4. Entering annotations before/after other annotations
- 5.8.5. Creating depending annotations for a active annotation
- 5.8.6. Creating annotations on dependent tiers
- 5.8.7. Creating annotations from gaps
- 5.8.8. Creating regular annotations
- 5.8.9. Duplicating annotation values
- 5.8.10. Snap Annotations
- 5.8.11. Automatic labelling and numbering
- 5.8.12. Modifying the content of annotations
- 5.8.13. Changing the case of Annotations
- 5.8.14. Deleting annotation values
- 5.8.15. Deleting annotations
- 5.8.16. Deleting annotations and annotation values on multiple tiers
- 5.8.17. Split Annotations
- 5.8.18. Merging annotations
- 5.8.19. Entering annotations in different character sets
- 5.8.20. Associating an annotation with a Data Category
- 5.9. How to create annotation units on dependent tiers
- 5.10. How to filter and copy tiers
- 5.11. How to detect annotation overlaps
- 5.12. Create Annotation By subtraction
- 5.13. Copy and paste annotations
- 5.14. How to undo an action
- 5.15. Information about annotations
- 6. Working modes
- 7. Searching
- 8. Help
- 9. Reference guide
- A. REGULAR EXPRESSION SEARCH
Third party update, regular expressions
