CLARIN-NL - Sign language

Version

1.6

Access Contact

Project Contact

O.A. Crasborn

/mailto:/

Creator Contact

Documentation

ANNEX Manual

ANNEX Online Manual

ANNEX Flyer

ANNEX A4 Guide

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/4188

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/4187

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/1941

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/4186

Resource

CMDI File Link

License

GNU GPL

Inventory Scope

local

ELAN

root — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:38:48 +0000

Title

ELAN Multimedia Annotator

Description

ELAN is a professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources. With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of annotations to audio and/or video streams. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment, translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Annotations can be created on multiple layers, called tiers. Tiers can be hierarchically interconnected. An annotation can either be time-aligned to the media or it can refer to other existing annotations. The textual content of annotations is always in Unicode and the transcription is stored in an XML format. ELAN provides several different views on the annotations, each view is connected and synchronized to the media playhead. Up to 4 video files can be associated with an annotation document. Each video can be integrated in the main document window or displayed in its own resizable window. ELAN delegates media playback to an existing media framework, like Windows Media Player, QuickTime or JMF (Java Media Framework). As a result a wide variety of audio and video formats is supported and high performance media playback can be achieved. ELAN is written in the Java programming language and the sources are available for non-commercial use. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. ELAN has been functionally extended with the help of the following CLARIN-NL-funded projects: - ColTime: Collaboration on Time-Based Resources. - EXILSEA: Exploiting ISOcat's Language Sections in ELAN and ANNEX. - MultiCon: Multilayer Concordance Functions in ELAN and ANNEX. - SignLinC: Linking lexical databases and annotated corpora of signed languages. Over the years, many funders have contributed to the development of ELAN in several projects, such as the Volkswagen Foundation, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Max Planck Society and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.

Project

The Language Archive

DOBES

ColTime

EXILSEA

MultiCon

SignLinC

COEDL

CLARIN National Project

CLARIN-NL

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

Research domain

Linguistics

Cultural Sciences

Oral History

Linguistic Subject

general linguistics

Sign language

language acquisition

psycholinguistics

anthropological linguistics

discourse analysis

Language Documentation

Morpho-syntax

text and corpus linguistics

Tool task

speech transcription

phonetic annotation

morphosyntactic tagging

part of speech tagging

alignment

analysis

audio-visual processing

Country

Netherlands

Tool Type

local desktop

Research Phase

Enriching Data

Tool status

released

Input Language

Access Contact

Project Contact

O.A. Crasborn

/mailto:/

/mailto:coedl@anu.edu.au/

Creator Contact

Documentation

ELAN - user Guide

ELAN - Online User Guide

ELAN - Linguistic Annotator Manual

ELAN - Linguistic Annotator Online Manual

ELAN - Media Encoding Guideliens

Source code

not specified

Original source

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/4188

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/4187

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/1941

http://portal.clarin.nl/node/4186

Resource

CMDI File Link

License

GNU GPL

Inventory Scope

local

ColTime

Erica Renckens — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:39:39 +0000

ColTime: Collaboration on Time-Based Resources

Summary

An extension of ELAN and ANNEX for the annotation and display of time‐based resources such as audio and video with a referencing and note exchanging system.

Background

Reference to resources is typically only possible at the metadata session level, but not at the level of a time slice of a larger audio-visual document, let alone at the level of individual annotations. ColTime reduces the granularity of unique references from the document level to the annotation level. As a test case, ColTime's developers focused primarily on online and offline sign language corpora containing annotated video files (EAF document format), but the same technology can be exploited for any type of research that uses audio. ColTime lead to:

The generation of a link reference to sub‐segments of annotation documents in the online browser ANNEX or the offline annotation tool ELAN; the former including a persistent identifier to a document published in a standard archive, the latter including a reference to a document in for instance a sharable Dropbox environment. Units that will be referred to include plain time slices in the media file, and parts of annotation documents such as tiers and individual annotations.
Standardization of the ANNEX visualization service such that it (a) can process PIDs and part identifiers in a standardized way and (b) can be configured as a persistent service as is appropriate for a service that is to be referenced from publications.
The adaptation of the visualisation service of ANNEX for specific purposes as showing examples and counterexamples side by side.
An online service that allows for the creation, search, and exchange of notes that include the type of links mentioned above. The notes receive ISOcat‐based metadata in terms of properties such as author, date, type, purpose, status, and addressee.
Interaction between the note system and ELAN and ANNEX, so that notes can be created, searched for, and modified from within these tools.
Interaction of the above system with (a) mail and existing social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and (b) cloud services such as Dropbox, so as to allow for collaboration on resources that are not yet archived.

Contacts

Project leader: Dr. O.A. Crasborn (Radboud University)  
CLARIN center: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Help contact : https://tla.mpi.nl/contact/

Links

Web-sites: http://www.ru.nl/sign-lang/projects/coltime/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots):
- Demonstration Scenario
- Screencast
Manual: http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/manuals/manual-elan.pdf
Tool/Service link: https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/
Publications: n.a.

Research domain

Linguistics

Sign language

Language

Multiple languages

Resource tags

service

web-application

local tool

Tool task

annotation

CLARIN centre

Country

Netherlands

EXILSEA

Erica Renckens — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:33:44 +0000

EXILSEA: Exploiting ISOcat's Language Sections in ELAN and ANNEX

Summary

Enhancements of the multimedia annotation tool ELAN and the accompanying ANNEX browser for users of different languages with the multilingual features of ISOCAT.

Background

The CLARIN data category system ISOcat offers the possibility to create multiple language sections for names, definitions and descriptions of data categories, English being the only obligatory language. The use of these multilingual functions in ISOcat for the creation of multilingual versions of the corpus metadata and annotations will only be a solution if the tools to annotate multimodal data and to visualise those annotations actually exploit the multilingual features. EXILSEA enhances the multimedia annotation tool ELAN and the accompanying ANNEX browser for this purpose.
This new functionality is being demonstrated for the Corpus NGT (for Sign Language of the Netherlands), which is originally glossed, translated, and annotated in Dutch. Its existing IMDI metadata has been updated to CLARIN-standard CMDI descriptions using bilingual ISOcat categories, and has likewise standardised the Controlled Vocabularies in the annotation files by using references to bilingual ISOcat categories.

Contacts

Project leader:  Dr. O.A. Crasborn (Radboud University)
CLARIN center: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Help contact : https://tla.mpi.nl/contact/

Links

Web-sites: http://www.ru.nl/sign-lang/projects/exilsea/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): Screencast
Manual: http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/manuals/manual-elan.pdf
Tool/Service link: https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/
Publications: n.a.

Research domain

Linguistics

Sign language

Language

Multiple languages

Resource tags

service

web-application

local tool

multi-lingual

Tool task

annotation

CLARIN centre

Country

Netherlands

SignLinC

Erica Renckens — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:20:57 +0000

SignLinC: Linking lexical databases and annotated corpora of signed

Summary

The core of SignLinC consists of enhancements for LEXUS 3.0 and ELAN 4.0, both released at the start of 2011.

Background

Additions to ELAN include the following:

Addition of a "Lexicon" tab at the top right of the interface. Annotations on a gloss tier can be looked up in a LEXUS lexicon. The user can select which fields from LEXUS to display in the Lexicon tab. (li)The possibility of creating a link to an 'external controlled vocabulary' that is published on a web server, and that can be modified independently of specific EAF files. Displaying and browsing a very long list of items in the pop-up menu that appears when creating an annotation on a tier that is linked to an External Controlled Vocabulary (ECV) is optimised by a number of preference options. At this moment it is not yet possible to generate an ECV from within LEXUS, but this will likely be included in future releases of LEXUS.

ANNEX, the online sibling of ELAN, has been modified independently of the project to allow the creation of URL-style links to segments of annotation files on a server. These links can be included on web pages, power-point presentations, or PDF files. In this way, quick access to published annotations is possible from within lexical resources.

SignLinC links two independently evolved data sets for a signed language: the Corpus NGT and the lexical database of the Dutch Sign Centre. The first is a corpus of video texts that was already fully compliant with CLARIN standards, while the latter is an independently evolved Microsoft SQL database. Both are prototypical for the situation of signed language resources in the world: corpora of running signing have only recently been under development and typically use ELAN as the annotation tool, while lexical databases have typically evolved as standalone applications to produce dictionaries in books or on CD/DVD-ROMs. In order to establish a link in both directions, a conversion of relevant parts of the lexical database to the CLARIN LMF standard for lexica was created for a small test set of lemmata.
The SignLinC project was a collaboration between Radboud University, the Dutch Sign Centre (NGc), and the MPI for Psycholinguistics; it was funded by CLARIN-NL and was completed in 2011.

Contacts

Project leader:  Dr. O.A. Crasborn (Radboud University)
CLARIN center: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI)
Help contact:

Links

Web-sites: http://www.ru.nl/sign-lang/projects/completed-projects/signlinc/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): http://youtu.be/je3ZKPw6w5s
Manual: Linking to Corpus NGT movies using ANNEX: http://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/515655/signlinc_deliverable_d5_v2.pdf IMDI metadata description of the SignLinC lexicon: http://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/515655/signlinc_deliverable_d3_v2.pdf
Tool/Service link: https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/
Publications: The new ELAN functionality is described in a poster that was presented at the 4th workshop of the Sign Linguistics Corpora Network (SLCN) in Berlin, Dec. 2011 (pdf) http://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/515655/signlinc_slcn4-berlin_poster_v3.pdf

Research domain

Linguistics

Sign language

Language

Dutch Sign Language

Resource tags

lexicon

service

web-application

local tool

Tool task

annotation

CLARIN centre

Country

Netherlands

VALID

Erica Renckens — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:07:03 +0000

VALID - vulnerability in language acquisition: language impairments in Dutch

Summary

An open access multimedia archive of language pathology data collected in the Netherlands, primarily on Dutch, audio files and transcripts. Currently, this corpus contains 5 different data sets. In the VALID data archive old, current and future data can be brought together.

Background

VALID, an open access multimedia language data archive, facilitates and promotes innovative research in the area of language impairment. There are a number of compelling reasons for exchanging and sharing this kind of data. Obviously, in a small country like the Netherlands a considerably smaller amount of language data is being collected than in much larger regions, especially so with respect to language disorders, a highly specific research domain. The combination of a wide range of language impairments in one data archive not only enhances the study of similar impairments but also advances comparisons between different disorders. Moreover, the inclusion of different age groups allows for quasi-longitudinal research designs. Finally, analysis of task properties and effects that are specific to pathological language groups can make a significant contribution to evidence-based research.

The following data sets define the launching platform for the VALID data archive, together with the BISLI data set that is currently being curated (FESLI):

The SLI RU-Kentalis database: the expression of spatial relations by children with SLI and normally developing children in their spoken language production
The UU SLI-Dyslexia project database: early language development in children at familial risk of dyslexia
The bilingual deaf children RU-Kentalis database: the bilingual language and communication development of young deaf children in Sign Language of the Netherlands (SLN) and Dutch (D)
The ADHD and SLI corpus UvA database: the language and executive functioning profiles of children with ADHD and children with SLI and TD children
The deaf adults RU database: the acquisition of morphosyntactic aspects of Dutch by deaf Dutch adults (late L1/early L2) and hearing Turkish and Moroccan-Arabic L2-learners of Dutch (late L2).

For all data sets concerned, written informed consent from the participants or their caretakers has been obtained. Informants or their caretakers have agreed to share their speech/language data and metadata, on the condition of anonymity, which will be ensured by the data providers and infrastructure specialists Contacts

Project leader: Dr. J. Klatter (Radboud University)  
CLARIN center: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Help contact: j.klatter@let.ru.nl (coordinator)

Links

Web-sites: http://validdata.org/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: n.a.
Tool/Service link: http://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-8C315BC1-AD5E-4348-9A79-A41FE3DE1150 (CMDI top node)
https://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/asv/?openpath=node:2102153 (metadata browser)
Publications:
- Bergmann, L, van Hout, R and Klatter-Folmer, J. 2017. SLI Diagnostics in Narratives: Exploring the CLARIN-NL VALID Data Archive. In: Odijk, J and van Hessen, A. (eds.) CLARIN in the Low Countries, Pp. 167–180. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.14. License: CC-BY 4.0
- Klatter, J., Hout, R. van, Heuvel, H. van den, Fikkert, P., Baker, A., Jong, J. de, Wijnen, F., Sanders, E. & Trilsbeek, P. (2014). Vulnerability in Acquisition, Language Impairments in Dutch: Creating a VALID Data Archive. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Proceedings (LREC) May 26-31, 2014, Reykjavik. pp. 357-364.
- Heuvel, H. van den, Sanders, E., Klatter, J., Hout, R. van, Fikkert, P., Baker, A., Jong, J. de, Wijnen, F. & Trilsbeek, P. (2014). Data curation for a VALID Archive of Dutch Language Impairment Data. In: Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3(2), pp. 127-135. DOI:10.1075/dujal.3.2.02heu

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

Language

Dutch

Dutch Sign Language

Research domain

Communication & Media Studies

Linguistics

Morpho-syntax

Acquisition

Specific Language Impairment Studies

Sign language

Resource tags

data

corpus

mono-lingual

multi-lingual

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

Discourse

Orthographic

Orthographic Transcription

Phonetic / Phonological

phonetic representation

Morphosyntactic

Part-of-speech

Format

Textual data

Plain text

PDF

CSV

Praat TextGrid

CHAT

XML

EAF

Media data

wav

MP4

MultiCon

root — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:04:34 +0000

MultiCon: Multilayer Concordance Functions in ELAN and ANNEX

Summary

Enhancement of the multimedia annotation tool ELAN and the accompanying ANNEX browser to create an appropriate multilayer visualization of multilayer collocates, that significantly expands the search options. This led to ELAN release 4.6.0 (spring 2013).

Background

ELAN, the CLARIN standard tool for multimedia annotation developed at the MPI for Psycholinguistics, contains several search functions. The most complex one (‘Structured Search in Multiple Files’) is also available in TROVA, the search engine that can be used to query ELAN-files in the online corpora and displayed in the ANNEX browser tool. Overlapping patterns on multiple layers can be searched for, and these searches can already be specified for many temporal properties both within and between layers (called ‘tiers’ in ELAN). The list of search hits shows the results corresponding to the specified fields in the query listed in sequence, without an indication of the precise temporal relation. As the online browser tool ANNEX currently does not allow for the generation or modification of annotation files, researchers primarily use the stand-alone tool ELAN. MultiCon significantly enhances searching and visualisation in the online browser tool ANNEX and ELAN.

Contacts

Project leader:  Dr. O.A. Crasborn (Radboud University)
CLARIN center: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Help contact : o.crasborn@let.ru.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://www.ru.nl/sign-lang/projects/completed-projects/multicon/
User scenario's (screencasts): http://vimeo.com/67896572
Manual: http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/html/elan/index.html
Tool/Service link: (ELAN) http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/ , (ANNEX) http://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/annex/
Publications: Crasborn, O., M. Hulsbosch, L. Lampen, H. Sloetjes (2013), New multilayer concordance functions in ELAN and TROVA, TIGER 2013. http://tiger.uvt.nl/pdf/papers/crasborn.pdf

Research domain

Linguistics

Sign language

Language

Resource tags

data

corpus

service

web-application

local tool

Tool task

annotation

CLARIN centre