ELAN is a multimedia annotation tool that has been developed for roughly ten years now and is still being extended and improved in, on average, two or three major updates per year. This paper describes the current state of the application, the main areas of attention of the past few years and the plans for the near future. The emphasis will be on various interoperability issues: interoperabilit...

The NGCS is based on neuroscience research. While previous gesture classification systems were developed on the basis of gesture observation and their categories were heuristical, the NGCS links the phenomenology to the neurobiology of gestures. The theoretical assumption behind the NGCS is that its main kinetic and functional gesture categories are differentially associated with specific cogni...

Disclosure Statement Dr. Perlis has received research support from Cephalon and SanofiAventis; has consulted for Elan-King Pharmaceuticals, Gerson Lehrman, Clinical Advisors, and MedaCorp; has participated in speaking engagements for Sanofi-Aventis; has received use of equipment from Respironics; and has financial interests in Internet Didactic Services. Dr. Smith has received research support ...

Using and sharing multimedia corpora is a vital feature for research about language, but the number of different and often not easily compatible tools available makes this difficult to do. As the aims of the COLAJE project are to use multimodal linguistic data about language development in oral and sign languages, it was necessary to create a system (VICLO) that allowed sharing and using data c...

Recently rule based languages focussed on the use of rewriting as a modeling tool which results in making specifications executable. To extend the modeling capabilities of rule based languages, we explore the possibility of making the rule applications subject to probabilistic choices. We propose an extension of the ELAN strategy language to deal with randomized systems. We argue through severa...

ELAN is a versatile multimedia annotation tool that is being developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. About a decade ago it emerged out of a number of corpus tools and utilities and it has been extended ever since. This paper focuses on the efforts made to ensure that the application keeps up with the growing needs of that era in linguistics and multimodality research; growi...

Multilingual parallel corpora are a basic resource for research and development of MT. Such corpora are still scarce, especially for lower-diffusion languages. The paper presents a sentence-aligned tokenised Slovene-English corpus, developed in the scope of the EU ELAN project. The corpus contains 1 million words from fifteen recent terminology-rich texts and is encoded according to the Guideli...