Part I. USER'S GUIDE

This part of the manual contains the user’s guide. It is organized as follows:

It is recommended that you read the for you relevant chapters before starting to work with your own data.

Table of Contents

1. ELAN documents
Basic Information
Media Files and Annotation Files
Special ELAN data folder
How to start and manage documents
Selecting a user interface language
Creating a new document
Set the author and license information of a document
Synchronizing video files
Opening an existing document
Opening a remote ELAN file (*.eaf
Re-open recently accessed files
Switching between multiple files
Saving a document
Saving a selection as .eaf file
Validating an EAF file
Merging transcriptions
Saving a template
Changing the links to media files
Creating automatic backups
Printing
Configuring the page settings (page setup)
Previewing the printed pages
Opening a wave file in Praat
Exporting a selection to a wave file with Praat
Closing a file
Exiting ELAN
Editing preferences
Import and Export options
Export as
Import from
Screen display and navigation through a document
Basic Information: The ELAN window
The Video Viewer
The Annotation Density Viewer
The Waveform Viewer
The Subtitle Viewer
The Grid Viewer
The Text Viewer
The Lexicon Viewer
The Comments Viewer
The Metadata Viewer
Audio And Video Recognizers
The Timeline Viewer and the Interlinear Viewer
The Tier Name panel
The Timeseries Viewer
The Menu options
The Media Player options
The color coding
Increasing/decreasing the size of the ELAN window
Switching Viewers on/off
Show / Hide Specific Viewers
Increasing/decreasing the size of Viewers
Switching tiers on/off
Rearranging the order of tiers
View tiers by Type/Participant/Annotator
Sorting tiers
Creating and applying tier sets
Changing the time zoom
Changing the vertical (intensity) zoom
Changing the font size
Font Browser
Importing and exporting preferences
Editing shortcuts
How to copy current time of the media
How to navigate through a document
Accessing points in time
Going to the borders of a selection
Jumping step by step through a document
Viewing a list of annotations within one tier (Grid Viewer)
Jumping from annotation to annotation (Interlinear Viewer)
How to play a document
Playing a document
Playing a selection
Playing around a selection
Playing in slow motion
Changing playback rate and volume via the keyboard
Adding comments to .eaf files
Comments setup and settings
Adding, deleting & changing comments
Viewing comments & display options
Filter comments
Other functions
Multiple File Operations
How to select multiple files
Editing multiple files and analysis of multiple files
Multiple file export options
Multiple file import options
2. Annotations
Basic Information: Annotations, tiers and tier types
Defining languages for your content
How to define a tier type
Adding new tier types
Changing tier types
Deleting tier types
Importing tier types
Associating a tier type with a Data Category
How to define a tier and its attributes
Adding new tiers
Importing tiers
Creating a tier using the Silence Recognizer
Changing tier attributes
Deleting tiers
Merging tiers
Merging tiers (Classic)
Merging tier groups
Changing the parent of a tier
Add New Participant
Data categories
Controlled Vocabularies
The creation of a CV
Setting language(s) for a CV
Associating a CV entry with a Data Category
Importing an existing CV
Using an External CV
Exporting a CV
Associating a tier type with Controlled Vocabularies
Using CV's
Consulting a Lexicon
Setting up a Lexicon Service
Set the Lexicon Service and entry field information for a Tier Type
Perform a Lexicon Lookup
Signbank lexicon service
Media Displayer
How to make a selection
Making a selection on an independent tier
Selecting multiple annotations
Using the selection controls
Creating annotation units without gaps
Making and saving a selection on a referring tier
Deselecting a selection
Changing the boundaries of an existing selection and annotation
Shifting annotations
Activating and deactivating the Bulldozer mode or Shift mode
How to enter and edit annotations
Entering annotations (into the Inline Edit box)
Entering annotations (into the Edit Annotation box)
Entering annotations from a Controlled Vocabulary
Entering annotations before/after other annotations
Creating depending annotations for a active annotation
Creating annotations on dependent tiers
Creating annotations from gaps
Creating regular annotations
Duplicating annotation values
Snap Annotations
Automatic labelling and numbering
Modifying the content of annotations
Modifying the boundaries of annotations
Moving annotations to another tier
Changing the case of Annotations
Deleting annotation values
Deleting annotations
Deleting annotations and annotation values on multiple tiers
Split Annotations
Merging annotations
Entering annotations in different character sets
Associating an annotation with a Data Category
Spell checking
Setting up a spell checking service
Spell checking
How to undo an action
Tokenize a tier
How to filter and copy tiers
Filtering tiers
Copying tiers
Copying annotations from one tier to another tier
How to detect annotation overlaps
Creating annotations from overlaps
Comparing annotators
Create annotation by subtraction
Copy and paste annotations
Copy annotation
Paste annotation
Paste annotation here
Copy and paste annotation groups
Duplicate annotation
Copy all annotations from one tier to another.
Synopsis
Web Services
WebLicht
Information about annotations
Annotations Spreadsheet
Annotations Statistics
Annotation Density Plot
3. Working modes
Annotation mode
Synchronization mode
Transcription mode
Selecting the tier types for transcription
Selecting tiers for transcription
Show or Hide tiers
Change color of tiers
Change color of tiers
Making tiers non-editable
Entering text for a annotation
Merging annotations
Modifying annotations
Shortcut keys used in this mode
Segmentation mode
Configuring the behavior of the segmentation keystroke
Editing annotations
Merging annotations and splitting annotations
Step-and-Repeat playback mode
Keyboard shortcuts
Interlinearization mode
Analyzer setup and configuration
Types of analyzers and their settings
Lexicons
The interlinearization panel
The Suggestion View
4. Searching
Searching in a single annotation file
Advanced searching: an example
Displaying search results
Jumping from the search results to annotations
Searching through multiple annotation files
FASTSearch
Find & replace in multiple files
Structured search through multiple annotation files
Substring Search Tab
Single Layer Search tab
Multiple Layer Search tab
5. Help
6. Reference guide
The mouse options
Resizing Viewers
Rearranging the order of tiers
Make a tier the active tier
Accessing points in time
Playing a document
Making a selection
Adding/modifying an annotation
The shortcut keys
File options
Playing a document & making selections
Working with annotations
Copy and paste
Working with selections
Searching
General
Key concepts of ELAN
Annotation file (*.eaf)
Media file (*.mpg, *.mov, *.wav etc.)
Annotation
Tier