Oliver Ehmer

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• Oliver Ehmer
• University of Freiburg
• Department of Romance Philology (Linguistics)
• www.oliverehmer.de
• International Society for Gesture Studies
• Third International Conference
• Northwestern University
• June 20, 2007

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Process
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Corpus window
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View window
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View window
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View window
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View window
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View window
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View window
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Import test

• Files that worked
• EXMARaLDA
• ELAN
• Files that didnt work
• MacVista
• ltAnnotation ... typeangela ...gt
• ANVIL
• ltFeature name"description"gt...lt/Featuregt

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Tier metadata suggestions

• Standardized set of tier attributes
• Type of content
• Real name of the speaker
• Display name
• Currently displayed in the tool
• Age, languages,
• Relations between different tiers

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Tier relations - EXMARaLDA
Tier
Type t
Type a
Type a

• Group of tiers

• Implicit references between annotations

• All annotations share anchors

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Tier relations Elan
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Tier relations Elan
Time subdivision
Symbolic association
Symbolic subdivision
Included in
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Tier relations Elan
Tier
A
B
C

• Hierarchy of tiers

• Explicit references between annotations

• Only annotations in the same tree may share
  anchors

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Tier metadata suggestions

• Tier metadata
• Parent tier ID
• Relation to parent tier
• Standardized set, e.g.
• Exmaralda_t_tier
• Elan_time_subdivision
• Elan_symbolic_association
• Annotation feature
• ID of parent annotation

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Elan ? other tool ? Elan
(via AG)
Tier
A
B
C
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• Oliver Ehmer
• oliver.ehmer_at_romanistik.uni-freiburg.de
• www.oliverehmer.de/transformer/beta