Introduction to ELAN
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This course introduces learners to the annotation tool ELAN, developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. ELAN supports transcribing, annotating and visualising audio and video material. It is designed to create layered or tiered transcriptions. The number of annotations is unlimited and can include anything from translation, comments or feature descriptions. ELAN is a free, open-source tool and runs on various operating systems.
Learning outcomes
After completing this course, learners will be able to:
Session 1
- what is an annotation
- what is a tiered transcription