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WORKSHOP WITH
Eva Huber
University of Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Aireen Arnuco
De La Salle University
Manila, Philippines
ABSTRACT
Using ELAN in Language Documentation
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This workshop will introduce participants to ELAN (EUDICO Linguistic Annotator), an annotation tool developed in the early 2000s by the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. It is used in linguistics to annotate spoken language or sign language such as naturalistic conversations, narratives, and interviews for the purpose of documenting language and analyzing language use. It is also used in other fields in the social sciences, humanities, cognitive science, communication, etc. The workshop offers participants a practical tutorial through the basic features of ELAN such as tiers, attributes and types, controlled vocabularies, and modes. Using a video file, participants will explore the functions of ELAN such as opening a new file, creating tiers and tier hierarchies, and annotating the file through segmentation and transcription. Participants are advised to bring their own laptops and to download ELAN ahead of time from https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/download. The workshop can only accommodate 15 participants. Interested participants may register here.
BIONOTES
Eva Huber is a PhD student at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. She got her Bachelor’s in English Linguistics and Literature from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) and her Master’s in Computational Linguistics from the University of Tuebingen (Germany). In her PhD, she uses computational methods to study how children acquire morphosyntax across typologically diverse languages. Since 2022 she’s been involved in a corpus building project in the Philippines. The aim of this project is to document and analyze children’s acquisition of Batangas Tagalog.
Aireen Barrios is associate professor of the Department of English and Applied Linguistics, De La Salle University. She is also a member of the Executive Board of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines. She serves as the local director of the Language Development of Batangas Tagalog (BATA Project), a collaboration between the University of Zurich and DLSU, and as the local investigator of the project Realizing Leibniz’s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind by the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin.