Field Linguistics Workshop: Technical Workshop“Software for documentary linguistics”
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, TUFS

Call for participantsThis series of workshops aims to provide researchers and students with basic
knowledge relating to two software programs which are used in the documentation anddescription of lesser-studied languages. Both ELAN (Max Planck’s EUDICO Linguistic
Annotator) and FLEx (SIL’s Fieldworks Explorer) are extremely useful for annotatingand analysing primary linguistic data obtained from linguistic fieldwork. Dr. Timothy
Brickell, who has ongoing experience of linguistic fieldwork in the Minahasa andMinahasa Tenggara regencies of North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, will provide anumber of training workshops on ELAN and FLEx. These workshops will include boththeoretical and practical aspects.
＊Please note that the FLEx workshops are only available to attendees withlaptops running the Microsoft Windows operating system.
1. Date/Time:
1st workshop: 12 December, 2018 ELAN
2nd workshop: 9 January, 2019FLEx
3rd workshop: 15 February, 2019 Using ELAN and FLEx together
Time: 14:00-16:00 for all days.
Participants are required to bring their own laptop and are encouraged to bring theirown linguistic data. A small data set will also be provided for those who do not havetheir own. Participants are not required to attend all workshops – they may attend
however many they would like. For the first two workshops no knowledge of either
program is required. The third workshop requires some knowledge of ELAN andFLEx.
2. Workshop content:
1st Workshop (Introduction to ELAN):● Brief overview of ELAN.
● Description of tiers, hierarchies, and creating tier templates.
● Creating a new annotation (.eaf) file.
● Synchronising digital media (audio and video) files.
● Segmenting a recording.
● Transcribing and translating a recording.
● Adding further tiers (for morpheme-by-morpheme glossing).
● Basic search functions.
2nd Workshop (Introduction to FLEx):● Brief overview of FLEx.
● Setting up a FLEx project.
● Adding, deleting, and editing lexical entries.
● Adding multiple senses and semantic categories.
● Entering text data, interlinearising, and basic morphological parsing.
● Basic search functions.

3rd Workshop (Using ELAN and FLEx together):● Outline of the ELAN→ FLEx→ ELAN workflow.
● Creating a suitable ELAN template.
● Annotating and exporting ELAN project files.
● Importing ELAN project to FLEx.
● Interlinearising text data in FLEx and exporting project.
● Re-importing interlinearised project back into ELAN.
● Possible problems and troubleshooting.
3. Venue:
1st and 2nd workshops:
Room 304, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia andAfrica (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
3rd workshop:
Room 306, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia andAfrica (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
4. Lecturer:
Dr. Timothy Brickell (ILCAA Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics)
5. Prerequisites for applicants:
Graduate students and researchers conducting or intending to conduct
linguistic fieldwork
6. Number of people accepted: Up to 15 participants for each workshop
7. Application:
Please access the link below and apply using the application form. Pleasewrite the dates you wish to attend in the “others” section. You will
receive an automatic reply when your application is successful.
https://lingdy.aa-ken.jp/en/activities/training-ws/181212-flws-tech/(You can reach the same page through the QR code above.)
8. Deadline for applications:
1st workshop: 10 December, 2018
2nd workshop: 7 January, 2019
3rd workshop: 13 February, 2019
9. Language: English
10. Participation fee: Free of charge
11. Further information:
Information about the previous workshops can be found at:
http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/training/fieldling-ws/data-pro-ws
12. Contact:
LingDy3 Project Administrative Office
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)
E-mail: info-lingdy[at]aacore.net (Please replace [at] with @)