Annotation by Category: ELAN and ISO DCR

The Data Category Registry is one of the ISO initiatives towards the establishment of standards for Language Resource management, creation and coding. Successful application of the DCR depends on the availability of tools that can interact with it. This paper describes the first steps that have been taken to provide users of the multimedia annotation tool ELAN, with the means to create references from tiers and annotations to data categories defined in the ISO Data Category Registry. It first gives a brief description of the capabilities of ELAN and the structure of the documents it creates. After a concise overview of the goals and current state of the ISO DCR infrastructure, a description is given of how the preliminary connectivity with the DCR is implemented in ELAN.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Han Sloetjes, Peter Wittenburg
• Keywords: Annotation Tool Elan, Data Category Registry, Education, ISO DCR Infrastructure, LREC 2008