the benefits of ELAN

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I have been doing some reading.. I try to understand this.
ELIAN is open source, the software is GPL licensed - I think I understand
how it would work. What I wonder about it is how you annotate a signing
session. Mark it in such a way that you can indeed search for things. You
still need a method to indicate that a particular sign or part of a sign is
used in a given time frame. Is this where SingWriting / HamNoSys come in by
associating it with a time slot in ELIAN ?

Amanda Brown wrote on a separate mail thread about "Comparison of multimodal
annotation tools: A workshop report. Gesprächsforschung, 7:99-123." would
this be available in a digital format for me ?
Thanks,
    Gerard

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Lou de B <luisitadb at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>  Sign writing, as Sonja has said, is a transcription system or
> orthography, as is HamNoSys etc. I don't know anything about ANVIL, but have
> been using ELAN daily for close to 2 years and it is a fantastic program
> that allows you an infinite number of tiers to annotate what you want (such
> as individual signs, or whole clauses) however you want (eg English glosses,
> or some sort of more phonetic transcription). Unless you are looking at the
> phonology, generally an indepth phonetic transcription is not needed as the
> annotations are time aligned with the video. That means you always have
> access to the raw data in front of you. The great thing about using a
> program like ELAN is that you are then able to search your data for (just a
> couple of egs, the uses are multiple) frequency of something, length of time
> of something in a text (eg overlaps), or co-occurrence of one thing with
> another. This means instead of having an archive of data, you have a
> machine-readable corpus. Absolutely invaluable for going back to the data
> again and again.
>
> ELAN is free, constantly updated, help is available by email or to the
> ELAN list. Additionally, you can give feedback to the guys working on it so
> it evolves to meet your needs. Basically, I have found very little that ELAN
> is unable to do in our use of it in Australia (with Trevor Johnston and Adam
> Schembri in London). That's my rant and rave for it. I'm a serious convert.
>
> Louise de Beuzeville
>
>
> On 2/5/08 8:06 PM, "Sonja Erlenkamp" <sonja.erlenkamp at hist.no> wrote:
>
> I wouldn't compare a writing- (or transcription)system with a dataprogramm
> (as Elan is), which is used to link annotations to a videofile. They have
> different functions in the analysis of the data. I'd rather combine them. :)
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Sonja Erlenkamp
>
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> *Fra:* slling-l-bounces at majordomo.valenciacc.edu på vegne av Ingvild Roald
> *Sendt:* fr 02.05.2008 11:16
> *Til:* A list for linguists interested in signed languages
> *Kopi:* A list for linguists interested in signed languages
> *Emne:* Re: [SLLING-L] ANVIL versus ELAN
>
> For transcription and analysis of dialogues, I don't know about ANVIL or
> ELAN, but it could be done in SignWriting (hhtp://www.signwriting.org).
> Examples of communications between two and three persons have recently been
> published on the sw-list. SignWriting can be exported as XML
>
> Ingvild Roald, Norway (not a linguist)
>
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