Sloetjes, H.

Somasundaram, A.

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ELANannotation tool for multimodality researcha progress report Han Sloetjes, Aarthy Somasundaramhan.sloetjes@mpi.nl, aarthy.somasundaram@mpi.nlELAN is a multimedia annotation tool• freely available, sources available• written in Java, stores data in XML• current version 4.3.3• Multiple File operationsreduces repetition of the same manual actions (mouse clicks, key strokes) MF tier and type editingadd or remove tiers, edit tier and type attributesMF export / conversionexport to several formats; tab-delimited text, Toolbox, PraatMF search, find-and-replacecomplex structured search, find and replace with  support for regular expressionMF creationcreate eaf files for all media files in a selected set of folders MF tier operationsannotations from overlaps, by merging or subtractionTier-based operationscreate new tiers with annotations based on the annotations of two or more existing tiersapply logical operation AND, OR or XOR, or subtracthttp://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan The Language Archive - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The NetherlandsMedia Supportnew player for Windows 7 based on Microsoft Media Foundation adds support for mp4/H.264Task oriented working modesAnnotation Modethe classic, default • mode, allows both segmentation and labelingSegmentation Moderapid creation of • segments while media is playingsegments created only • on root tiers and on “included in” type of dependent tierskeyboard driven • segmentationTranscription Modethe process is cut down to listening/• watching and typingdisplays all annotations on all tiers of a certain type in • one columntiers are loaded based on the tier type• first column can have tiers of any type• Audio and Video recognizersmanual annotation is • time consuming, 1 hour of recording can take up to 100 hour transcriptionusage of audio/video • pattern recognition software can speed up transcription workan extension mechanism • has been implemented for recognizersspeech/non-speech detection, speaker • clustering, forced alignment, head-hand-arm detectionwww.mpi.nl/avatechTranscription mode settings dialog

ELAN - a multimedia annotation tool for multimodality research: A progress report

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ELAN - a multimedia annotation tool for multimodality research: A progress report

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