General description
This course introduces participants to two pieces of software that are widely used in language documentation, offers hands-on training in each software application, and then goes further to demonstrate how to use the two of them together. The course follows a typical fieldwork workflow, starting with audio segmentation, transcription, and translation in ELAN using EAF templates. Participants learn how to compile their data into a searchable corpus and how to conduct searches across their data. The course will then shift to FLEx, providing participants with basic knowledge of its primary functions and how to build a lexicon, work with texts, and parse and gloss data. Finally, participants will be guided through a step-by- step ELAN-FLEx-ELAN workflow so that they have the ability to benefit from the advantages offered by each program.
- Introduction to ELAN, the primary modes
- Using templates, starting a project, segmentation, transcription, translation
- Creating an ELAN corpus, searches with regular expressions
- Introduction to FLEx, the primary modes
- Lexicography with FLEx, working with texts, parsing and glossing
- ELAN-FLEx-ELAN workflow
Target audience
This course is aimed for graduate (MA) students, PhD students and postdocs with an interest in researching language and communication using audio or video data.
Course prerequisites
This is a beginner’s course. Participants will be required to download and install the ELAN and FLEx software, as well as prepare an audio and video file in .wav and .mp4 format.
Course materials
The primary course materials (the software) is freely available online. The ELAN template will be provided by the instructor. The course is participatory, and there are no associated notes and readings.
Teacher bio
Andrew Harvey is a Junior Professor in the Faculty of Languages and Literatures at the University of Bayreuth. His interests include the languages of the Tanzanian rift, their documentation and description, their morphosyntax, and the histories and cultures of their speaker communities, especially as evinced through linguistic arts and language contact.
Schedule
The contact hours are:
- Monday 14/07/2025, 9:00-10:30 & 11:00-12:30
- Tuesday 15/07/2025, 9:00-10:30 & 11:00-12:30
- Wednesday 16/07/2025, 9:00-10:30 & 11:00-12:30
- Thursday 17/07/2025, 9:00-10:30 & 11:00-12:30
- Friday 18/07/2025, 9:00-10:30 & 11:00-12:30