Annotation, Alignment and Transcription: An extremely brief and basic introduction to Elan and Transcriber OLAC Tutorial at the Linguist Society of America Annual Meeting 2007 – Anaheim 1

Annotation, Alignment and Transcription

An extremely brief and basic introduction to Elan and Transcriber

Annotation, Alignment and Transcription: An extremely brief and basic introduction to Elan and Transcriber OLAC Tutorial at the Linguist Society of America Annual Meeting 2007 – Anaheim 2

Plan of talk

• A concise glossary

• The usefulness of tools

• Using Elan

• Using Transcriber

• Closing remarks

Annotation, Alignment and Transcription: An extremely brief and basic introduction to Elan and Transcriber OLAC Tutorial at the Linguist Society of America Annual Meeting 2007 – Anaheim 3

A concise glossary

• Annotation– Information, such as part of speech labels, added to a

speech signal (signed or spoken).

• Alignment– Organization of multiple strings of data in a multi-

linear format. Also, synchronization of text, audio and/or video files.

• Transcription– A representation of a speech signal (signed or spoken).

Annotation, Alignment and Transcription: An extremely brief and basic introduction to Elan and Transcriber OLAC Tutorial at the Linguist Society of America Annual Meeting 2007 – Anaheim 4

Plan of talk

• A concise glossary

• The usefulness of tools

• Using Elan

• Using Transcriber

• Closing remarks

Annotation, Alignment and Transcription: An extremely brief and basic introduction to Elan and Transcriber OLAC Tutorial at the Linguist Society of America Annual Meeting 2007 – Anaheim 5

The usefulness of tools

• What they offer– Facilitate gathering of media and linguistic information

for annotation, alignment and transcription

– Interoperability

– Many export to decent XML

• Hurdles– (Somewhat) steep learning curve

– Can easily tweak your way right out of best practice

– A lot goes on under the hood

Annotation, Alignment and Transcription: An extremely brief and basic introduction to Elan and Transcriber OLAC Tutorial at the Linguist Society of America Annual Meeting 2007 – Anaheim 6

Plan of talk

• A concise glossary

• The usefulness of tools

• Using Elan

• Using Transcriber

• Closing remarks

Annotation, Alignment and Transcription: An extremely brief and basic introduction to Elan and Transcriber OLAC Tutorial at the Linguist Society of America Annual Meeting 2007 – Anaheim 7