Measuring by marking; the multimedia annotation tool ELAN
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چکیده
ELAN is a multimedia annotation tool developed by “The Language Archive” [1, 2], a unit of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. It is applied in a variety of research areas in which audio and/or video recordings are the basis for qualitative and/or quantitative analysis of different modalities of communication. This paper aims at presenting a general overview of the tool with an emphasis on the most recent developments.
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