Corpus building with Elan
Descriptif
Welcome to the first chapter of the course “Corpus building with Elan”. We will see how to start the annotation process of your media file and will end up with a transcribed, translated and glossed file that can be used as an element of a future corpus. We will use data from Ginyanga, a Kwa language spoken in Togo by approximately 16 k speakers. We annotate a traditional tale about a girl who could not choose a husband and ended up being married to a half-man (see the original video with subtitles on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-YGCgk2k34).
You can find additional information in the video description and two cheat sheets to download that summarise the chapter. Enjoy the first chapter of the course!
Credits:
LLACAN - Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique
UMR 8135 CNRS - INALCO - EPHE
Auteurs: Christian Chanard, Katya Aplonova
Réalisation: Katya Aplonova, Céline Ferlita, Jeanne Zerner
ELAN (Version 7.0). 2025. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Language Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan
ELAN-CorpA (Version 6.4). 2025. Villejuif: CNRS-LLACAN. Téléchargé à partir de https://llacan.cnrs.fr/ELAN-CorpA
Vidéos
1. Download open media and save the annotation file
This tutorial shows how to download Elan, create and save a new file. Download page: https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/download Documentation page: https://www.mpi.nl/tools/elan/docs/manual/index.html
2. Segmentation in Elan
This tutorial shows how to segment the file in Elan. Elan has an automatic silence recognizer! More details can be found here (https://www.mpi.nl/tools/elan/docs/manual/index.html#Sec_Creating_a_tier
3. Labelling of annotations in ELAN
This tutorial shows how to label annotations in Elan. Refer to the Working with files from scratch in ELAN cheat sheet for a resume of tutorials from 1 to 8: https://sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/AM7kRBbXjTGyXGB
5. Bonus wordlist
This tutorial shows how to create a simple wordlist using Grid. Instruction how to remove duplicates in Excel can be found here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-and-remove-duplicates
6. Glossing in Elan Corpa
In this tutorial, following topics are covered: creation of the lexicon configuration of the interlinearization adding records adding variants adding underlying forms opening and import of an
7. Glossing in Elan Max Planck
This tutorial shows how to gloss files using Interlinearization mode in Elan Max Plank. If you have any questions or feedback, you can send a message to [email protected].
Intervenants et intervenantes
Doctorante en linguistique, INALCO et LLACAN - Langage, langues et cultures de l'Afrique (en 2023)