ELAN is a powerful language and environment for specifying and prototyping deduction systems in a language based on rewrite rules controlled by strategies. It offers a natural and simple logical framework for the combination of the computation and deduction paradigms. It supports the design of theorem provers, logic programming languages, constraint solvers and decision procedures. ELAN takes f...

A new extension to ELAN offers expanded n-gram analysis tools including improved search capabilities and an extensive library of statistical measures of association for n-grams. This paper presents an overview of the new tools and a case study in American Sign Language synthesis that exploits these capabilities for computing more natural timing in generated sentences. The new extension provides...

We present a coding system combined with an annotation tool for the analysis of gestural behavior. The NEUROGES coding system consists of three modules that progress from gesture kinetics to gesture function. Grounded on empirical neuropsychological and psychological studies, the theoretical assumption behind NEUROGES is that its main kinetic and functional movement categories are differentiall...

ELAN is an environment for prototyping and combining different deduction systems described using rewrite rules and strategies. Two languages of strategies used for controlling rewriting are presented in this paper. The first one, called built-in strategy language, is hard-wired with the implementation of ELAN, and thus, non-extensible from the user’s point of view. However, it provides an effic...

Within the framework of Friederici's (2002) neurocognitive model of sentence processing, the early left anterior negativity (ELAN) in event-related potentials (ERPs) has been claimed to be a brain marker of syntactic first-pass parsing. As ELAN components seem to be exclusively elicited by word category violations (phrase structure violations), they have been taken as strong empirical support f...

This paper discusses the concept of genericity often used in algebraic specification languages and how this concept can be simulated in a meta level in languages with purely initial semantics, as it is the case for ELAN and ASF+SDF. This proposal is being integrated into the FERUS tool, in development for ELAN, and will have the effect of providing in the meta level better modularity features w...

We present a new transcription mode for the annotation tool ELAN. This mode is designed to speed up the process of creating transcriptions of primary linguistic data (video and/or audio recordings of linguistic behaviour). We survey the basic transcription workflow of some commonly used tools (Transcriber, BlitzScribe, and ELAN) and describe how the new transcription interface improves on these...