Adding missing CV tier in ELAN

author: Sasha Wilmoth date: 2017-08-24

tags: - Elan - Python

categories: - Tutorials

Introduction

Until the recent release of ELAN 5.0, it was not possible to automatically parse and gloss transcriptions in ELAN. A commonly used workaround is to export from ELAN into Toolbox, and import the interlinearised texts back into ELAN. In the process, some tiers might be altered.

Ruth Singer sent me some files that had all been nicely glossed, but, as you can see in the screenshot below, the utterance has been tokenised into single words in the XV tier.

![Screenshot of ELAN file with no CV tier](Screen Shot 2017-08-24 at 4.27.06 pm.png)

I wrote a script in Python that adds the original utterance back in for each participant, based on the words in the XV tier. The output looks like this:

![Screenshot of ELAN file with CV added back in](Screen Shot 2017-08-24 at 4.27.30 pm.png)

addCVtier.py

Requirements

addCVtier.py requires Python 2.x. It works on a Mac, and has not been tested on Windows.

The script can be found here.

Running the script

The script runs on a single .eaf file at a time, and outputs a new file with the extension _CV.eaf. The command is simply:

addCVtier.py File001.eaf