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OpenConvert

Jan Odijk — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:29:10 +0000

Title

Summary

The OpenConvert tools convert to TEI or FOLiA from a number of input formats (alto, text, word, HTML, ePub). The tools are available as a Java command line tool, a web service and a web application.

Background

The OpenConvert Tools were created by INL in the OpenConvert project. The OpenConvert tools convert to TEI or FOLiA from a number of input formats (alto, text, word, HTML, ePub). The tools are available as a Java command line tool, a web service and a web application. Furthermore, as a proof of concept, the website currently provides two annotation tools: a simple Tokenizer for TEI files and a modern Dutch part of speech tagger.

Contacts

Project leader: Jan Theo Bakker 
CLARIN center:
Help contact : helpdesk@clarin.nl

Links

Web-sites: n.a.
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: http://openconvert.clarin.inl.nl/openconvert/web/help.html
Tool/Service link:
- web application: http://openconvert.clarin.inl.nl/
- web services: see http://openconvert.clarin.inl.nl/openconvert/web/help.html
- command line tools: https://github.com/INL/OpenConvert
Publications: n.a.

Research domain

Religion Studies

Communication & Media Studies

Computational Linguistics

Cultural Sciences

History

Literary Studies

Philosophy

Political Studies

Linguistics

Language

Dutch

Language independent

Country

Netherlands

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

Language independent

Resource tags

multi-media/muliti-modal

service

web-application

local tool

Tool task

annotation

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

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

Language independent

Resource tags

multi-media/muliti-modal

service

web-application

local tool

multi-lingual

Tool task

annotation

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

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

Language independent

Resource tags

multi-media/muliti-modal

lexicon

service

web-application

local tool

Tool task

annotation

CLARIN centre

MPI for Psycholinguistics

Country

Netherlands

ARBIL

root — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 08:46:14 +0000

ARBIL

Summary

ARBIL is a data management tool with as its main function a flexible (CMDI) metadata editor. It allows to choose an existing CMDI metadata schema/profile from the CMDI registry and create instantiations of that schema. The editor allows the use of tables and copy and paste to exchange information between the tables. ARBIL is ideally suited for situations where multiple different metadata schema are used. ARBIL needs to be installed on the local computer.

Background

Arbil is an application for arranging research material and associated metadata into a format appropriate for archiving. Arbil is designed so that it can be used off line in remote locations. The data can be entered at any stage in part or as a whole. Arbil was designed to create mainly IMDI and CMDI metadata.

Main functions:

Metadata structures can be created, viewed and edited.
Multiple metadata files can be edited at the same time.
The local metadata tree can be searched with multiple parameters.
The data files can be launched in the associated applications such as ELAN or Media Players.
Many metadata files can be bulk edited in a single table.
With the exception of accessing the remote (LAT based) archive, all features are available offline such as in remote field sites.
You can enter the data as it becomes available, there is no mandatory order.

Arbil 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.
Contacts

Project leader: Peter Withers 
CLARIN center: MPI for Psycholinguistics
Help contact: http://tla.mpi.nl/forums/software/arbil/

Links

Web-sites: http://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/arbil/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: (pdf) http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/manuals/userguide-arbil-cmdi.pdf
Tool/Service link: http://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/arbil/
Publications: Withers, P. (2012). Metadata management with Arbil. In V. Arranz, D. Broeder, B. Gaiffe, M. Gavrilidou, & M. Monachini (Eds.), Proceedings of LREC 2012: 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp. 72-75). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Language

Language independent

Resource tags

local tool

Tool task

metadata editing

Country

Netherlands

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