ELAN software

{{Short description|Audio and video recording software}}

{{Infobox software

| name = ELAN

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| developer = The Language Archive

| released = {{Start date and age|2000}}

| latest release version = 6.1

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2021|03|12}}{{cite web

| url = https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/release-notes

| title = Release notes - The Language Archive

| website = archive.mpi.nl

| access-date = 2021-04-04

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| programming language = Java

| operating system = Windows, macOS, Linux

| platform = IA-32, x86-64

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| language = English

| genre = Language documentation, qualitative data analysis

| license = GPLv3

| website = {{URL|https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan}}

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ELAN is computer software, a professional tool to manually and semi-automatically annotate and transcribe audio or video recordings.Twilhaar, Jan Nijen; Bogaerde, Beppie van den (2016): Concise Lexicon for Sign Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p63. It has a tier-based data model that supports multi-level, multi-participant annotation of time-based media. It is applied in humanities and social sciences research (language documentation, sign language and gesture research) for the purpose of documentation and of qualitative and quantitative analysis.{{cite conference |last1=Wittenburg |first1=Peter |last2=Brugman |first2=Hennie |last3=Russel |first3=Albert |last4=Klassmann |first4=Alex |last5=Sloetjes |first5=Han |title=ELAN: a Professional Framework for Multimodality Research |date=2006 |url=https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L06-1082/ |conference=Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06) }} It is distributed as free and open source software under the GNU General Public License, version 3.

ELAN is a well established professional-grade software and is widely used in academia.{{cite book |last1=Kong |first1=Anthony Pak Hin |chapter=Multi-linear Transcription and Analysis of Oral Discourse |chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315639376/chapters/10.4324/9781315639376-11 |editor1-last=Kong |editor1-first=Anthony Pak Hin |title=Analysis of Neurogenic Disordered Discourse Production: From Theory to Practice |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-63937-6 |doi=10.4324/9781315639376 }}Orfanidou, Eleni; Woll, Bencie; Morgan, Gary (2015): Research Methods in Sign Language Studies: A Practical Guide. John Wiley & Sons. p274.Ruhi, Şükriye; Haugh, Michael; Schmidt, Thomas (2014): [https://books.google.com/books?id=EeExBwAAQBAJ&q=ELAN Best Practices for Spoken Corpora in Linguistic Research]. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p 188. It has been well received in several academic disciplines, for example, in psychology, medicine, psychiatry, education, and behavioral studies, on topics such as human computer interaction,{{cite journal |last1=Giuliani |first1=Manuel |last2=Mirnig |first2=Nicole |last3=Stollnberger |first3=Gerald |last4=Stadler |first4=Susanne |last5=Buchner |first5=Roland |last6=Tscheligi |first6=Manfred |title=Systematic analysis of video data from different human–robot interaction studies: a categorization of social signals during error situations |journal=Frontiers in Psychology |date=8 July 2015 |volume=6 |pages=931 |doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00931 |pmid=26217266 |pmc=4495306 |doi-access=free }} sign language and conversation analysis,{{cite conference |last1=Zahedi |first1=M. |last2=Dreuw |first2=P. |last3=Rybach |first3=D. |last4=Bungeroth |first4=J. |last5=Ney |first5=H. |year=2006 |title=Continuous Sign Language Recognition – Approaches from Speech Recognition and Available Data Resources |citeseerx=10.1.1.413.2233 }}{{cite conference |last1=Crasborn |first1=O. A. |last2=Bank |first2=R. |title=An annotation scheme for the linguistic study of mouth actions in sign languages |hdl=2066/132960 }}{{cite journal |last1=Manrique |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Enfield |first2=N. J. |title=Suspending the next turn as a form of repair initiation: evidence from Argentine Sign Language |journal=Frontiers in Psychology |date=15 September 2015 |volume=6 |pages=1326 |doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01326 |pmid=26441710 |pmc=4569752 |doi-access=free }} group interactions,{{cite journal |last1=Orfanos |first1=Stavros |last2=Akther |first2=Syeda Ferhana |last3=Abdul-Basit |first3=Muhammad |last4=McCabe |first4=Rosemarie |last5=Priebe |first5=Stefan |title=Using video-annotation software to identify interactions in group therapies for schizophrenia: assessing reliability and associations with outcomes |journal=BMC Psychiatry |date=10 February 2017 |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=65 |doi=10.1186/s12888-017-1217-2 |pmid=28183293 |pmc=5301334 |doi-access=free }} music therapy,{{cite journal |last1=Spiro |first1=Neta |last2=Himberg |first2=Tommi |title=Analysing change in music therapy interactions of children with communication difficulties |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |date=5 May 2016 |volume=371 |issue=1693 |pages=20150374 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2015.0374 |pmid=27069051 |pmc=4843612 }} bilingualism and child language acquisition,{{cite journal |last1=Chen Pichler |first1=Deborah |last2=Hochgesang |first2=Julie A. |last3=Lillo-Martin |first3=Diane |last4=Müller de Quadros |first4=Ronice |title=Conventions for sign and speech transcription of child bimodal bilingual corpora in ELAN |journal=Acquiring Sign Language as a First Language |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=11–40 |date=2010 |doi=10.1075/lia.1.1.03che |pmid=21625371 |pmc=3102315 }} analysis of non-verbal communication and gesture analysis,{{cite journal |last1=Kong |first1=Anthony Pak-Hin |last2=Law |first2=Sam-Po |last3=Kwan |first3=Connie Ching-Yin |last4=Lai |first4=Christy |last5=Lam |first5=Vivian |title=A Coding System with Independent Annotations of Gesture Forms and Functions during Verbal Communication: Development of a Database of Speech and GEsture (DoSaGE) |journal=Journal of Nonverbal Behavior |date=2015 |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=93–111 |doi=10.1007/s10919-014-0200-6 |pmid=25667563 |pmc=4319117 }} and animal behavior.{{cite journal |last1=Ravignani |first1=Andrea |last2=Olivera |first2=Vicente |last3=Gingras |first3=Bruno |last4=Hofer |first4=Riccardo |last5=Hernández |first5=Carlos |last6=Sonnweber |first6=Ruth-Sophie |last7=Fitch |first7=W. |title=Primate Drum Kit: A System for Studying Acoustic Pattern Production by Non-Human Primates Using Acceleration and Strain Sensors |journal=Sensors |date=31 July 2013 |volume=13 |issue=8 |pages=9790–9820 |doi=10.3390/s130809790 |pmid=23912427 |pmc=3812580 |bibcode=2013Senso..13.9790R |doi-access=free }}

Several third-party tools have been developed to enrich and analyse ELAN data and corpora.{{cite journal |last1=Andersson |first1=Richard |last2=Sandgren |first2=Olof |title=ELAN Analysis Companion (EAC): A Software Tool for Time-course Analysis of ELAN-annotated Data |journal=Journal of Eye Movement Research |date=23 February 2016 |volume=9 |issue=3 |doi=10.16910/jemr.9.3.1 |url=https://bop.unibe.ch/index.php/JEMR/article/view/2462 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Holle |first1=Henning |last2=Rein |first2=Robert |title=EasyDIAg: A tool for easy determination of interrater agreement |journal=Behavior Research Methods |date=9 August 2014 |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=837–847 |doi=10.3758/s13428-014-0506-7 |pmid=25106813 |s2cid=43570421 |url=https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/372612/1/10726 Holle.pdf }}{{cite conference |last1=Kousidis |first1=S. |last2=Pfeiffer |first2=T. |last3=Schlangen |first3=D. |year=2013 |title=MINT.tools: Tools and adaptors supporting acquisition, annotation and analysis of multimodal corpora |conference=Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech |pages=2649–2653 |url=https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2581101/2604093/IS13full_paper.pdf }}Berez, A.; Cox, C. (2009): CuPED (Customizable Presentation of ELAN Documents). URL: http://sweet.artsrn.ualberta.ca/cdcox/cuped/ (accessed 2017/03/21)