conversational turns

ELAN
1

Hellow!
I would like to count how many times the speakers exchange turns:
I’ve marked all the speech of each speaker (2 different tiers), and now I want to count events when one of them said something (marked as annotation on its tier) and the other one said something (also marked as annotaion in his tier) within 3 seconds window. is it possible to do it automaticly?
Hope I’m clear…
Thanks ahead-
Yael

2

ELAN doesn’t have a function for extracting that information more or less automatically.
There are a few functions you could use, as ‘in-between’ steps:

  • File->Export Multiple Files as->Annotation Overlaps Information… where you can select one reference tier and one or more tiers to compare with the reference tier. The output does not only contain overlaps information but also time difference to the first annotation after the reference annotations. You could filter on that column later. Would have to be applied twice, once for each speaker as the reference tier.
  • the Search->Structured Search eaf… allows to search for e.g. annotations on tier Y starting less than 3 sec after the end of an annotation on X, apply twice
3

Thanks!
I’ll try that and see if it saves time

4

Hi!
I did: File->Export Multiple Files as->Annotation Overlaps Information
it askes me to choose domain- “specify new domain” and then two buttens: new domain/new domain drom IMDI search.
how do I choose the tier I want?
Thanks!
Yael

5

Please consult the manual for that, working with multiple files.
A domain of multiple files can also just consist of one file.