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Tool development report

H. BrugmanMPI Nijmegen

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Overview

• IMDI Tools – update and future• ELAN – update and future• Conversion tools• Custom solutions• Tool distribution over internet• (Archive software – already discussed)• Lexicon – activities and future• typology – activities and future• demo of selected features

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IMDI Tools• IMDI Metadata set (latest version 3.02)• IMDI-BCEditor

• New single window user interface• Substructures repository• Drag and drop interface• Support for Closed Vocabularies• Display of metadata descriptions in HTML• Printing• Different CV update policies• coming soon

• Support for different fonts• Support for subdomain/project profiles

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IMDI Tools - 2

• IMDI-BCBrowser• support for CVs• display metadata descriptions as HTML• printing• password-protected access to resources using http authorization protocol• different CV update policies

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IMDI Tools - 3• IMDI-BCSearchTool

• XML-DB support (under construction)• for faster search• for ‘google’ type search

• IMDI-CVEditor• prototype ready

• IMDI-BCTreeBuilder (under construction)• IMDI-BCTreeModifier / spreadsheet view (planned)

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ELAN

• release 1.2 (oct 2002)• Automatic creation of a backup copy when first saving a document. • Exporting as a tab-delimited text. • Import/export between Elan and Shoebox, allowing time alignment in ELAN and interlinearization in Shoebox. • The Interlinear Viewer. • Color coding to visualize tier hierarchies.

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ELAN - 2• Slider for playing at rates between 5 and 200%. • More specific dependency relations between tiers using constraints. • Support for two modes of annotation, Overwrite and Bulldozer modes. • Entering annotations via the Inline Edit box• Subdividing annotations (entering annotations before/after existing annotations) • Modifying annotations in Grid Viewer. • Improved search options

• regular expression search• combination of multiple subqueries.

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ELAN - 3

• release 1.3 (april 2003)• workarounds for JMF (Java Media Framework) bugs • optimization and improved playback of viewers. ELAN is now substantially less demanding on CPU usage. • save shoebox imported file to eaf • import wac (word annotation converter) files • save wac imported files to eaf • XML improvements (other parser, validation, formatted XML)

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ELAN - 4

• an autosave function is added • shoebox import: SIL IPA characters are now converted to Unicode during import • an 'active tier' item is added to the right mouse menu in the time line viewer • panels do not resize unexpectedly any more after edit operations • the JMF media controller is replaced by a single 'play' button • a number of small improvements and bug fixes

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ELAN - 5

• upcoming releases• version 1.4 (april 2003)

• “select while playing”• Quicktime as alternative for JMF• also for the Mac

• version 2.0 (oct 2003)• complete revision, focusing on

• user interface• modularity• time accuracy• speed and efficiency

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Conversion tools

WordInterlinear text

Transcriber.trs (xml)

WAC(xml)

EAF(xml)

Shoebox(t in ref)

Shoebox(t separate)

WAC ELAN

econv econv

ELAN

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Custom solutions

• custom conversion scripts (e.g. Word lexicon to XML, then to Shoebox)• custom XSLT transformations• scripts for merging annotation docs with time docs

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Tool distribution over the internet

• Network launching using Webstart• Advantages:

• full control over all versions of all components needed to run some tool• components can be automatically updated

• Disadvantages:• initial download takes long over slow connections• users want to decide when to update

• What are your experiences?

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Lexicon – activities and future

• extensive analysis done• first design done. We propose to build:

• a flexible lexicon tool were users can define their own lexicon structure and content• a matching generic XML lexicon format• “Shoebox+” lexicon tool functionality• can be used in interaction with ELAN

• active participation in international discussions, e.g. ISO workshop on Lexicon structures.

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Typology

• project initiatives