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Automatic translation is not yet perfect but very nicely illustrates the power of applications based on current linguistic knowledge.

Collecting data


how to collect data, experimental tools, questionnaire studies

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LimeSurvey
by Paulien Veenstra

User-friendly tool for collecting data with a questionnaire for your term paper or thesis.

Creating corpora


how to create a corpus with linguistic data

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ELAN
by Paulien Veenstra

Create a corpus with audio/video recorded data, transcribe the data, add multi-layer annotations, and perform powerful queries.

To ELAN

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FLEx
by Paulien Veenstra

Create a morpheme-by-morpheme segmentation of words, gloss the data with semi-automatic procedures, create lexicon and grammar.

To FLEx

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Processing Transcriptions
by Paulien Veenstra, Jana Bajorat, Marie Benzerrak

Guidelines for converting transcribed data from ELAN to FLEx, processing in FLEx, and back converting to ELAN.

Processing speech data


how to process sound files, tools for phonetic research, how to align transcriptions with sounds...

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Audacity
by Alina Sementsova

Tool for processing sound files, revise recordings, remove noice, normalize loundness.

To Audacity

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Praat
by Alina Sementsova

Tool for phonetic analyses of spoken data, annotate sounds, extract measurements of speech.

To Praat

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Maus
by Paulien Veenstra

Special task: how to align a transcription with the timeline of the speech signal.

To Maus

Presenting research


how to structure and create a presentation, how to draw the attention of the audience with a poster, ...

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Writing a paper


how to organize a paper reporting an empirical study, the description of a linguistic phenomenon, a new proposal for the analysis of linguistic facts...

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LaTeX
by Alina Sementsova

Professional editing of your manuscripts, presentations, term papers, articles, and your future books.