ELAN: making tier(s) out of search results
Hedvig in her office in Canberra figuring this out and writing this guide. Here is another guide for how to do something practical in ELAN. Previously, we relayed Eri Kashima's guide for sensible auto-segmentation with PRAAT and ELAN (time saver!). (For all posts about fieldwork on this blog, see this tag. ) This time: how to take your search results and make the matching annotations into new separate tier(s). This is useful if you for example want to cycle through only the annotations that match a certain search query in transcription mode. This post has a longer guide, and a short guide at the end. You can also use this guide if you want to compare several different transcriptions with each other, for example older and newer versions or if you are collaborating with different people. In that case, start from step (4). For those who don't do a lot of transcription : ELAN ( E UDICO L inguistic An notator) is a program from TLA at MPI-Nijmegen. This program allow...