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LingSync

Guide to Entering Data

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Slides by Gretchen McCulloch

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Feel free to share! These slides are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Introduction

  • There are several ways to enter data in LingSync
    • Type data into the app directly
    • Insert audio and video files
    • Import data from a simple spreadsheet
    • Import text data from other programs
  • You can also collaborate and customize settings
  • This guide assumes that you already have LingSync on your computer, and that you've made an account and a (shared) corpus
  • If not, check out LingSync: Getting Set Up

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Entering data directly

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Start typing

  • Hyphens and

periods in glosses

(Leipzig conventions)

  • Hover over any button for description

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Automatic

processes

  • Utterance field automatically copies to the morphemes field
  • The autoglosser learns your glosses and will try to predict them

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Making a new datum

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Audio data

Drag and drop mp3/wav/ogg onto player

Active player

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Importing data

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From spreadsheet

Columns for data fields

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From spreadsheet

Download/save as .csv

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Import data

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Import: Step 1

Drag and drop the file

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Import: Step 2

Label column headers

Edit whatever you like

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Import: Step 3

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Finish Import

Automatic text: edit if you like

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Import from other programs

  • You can import data in essentially any structured format: try it!
  • LingSync will try to guess �how your data is organized
  • You can also adjust the �format manually

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Customizing settings

edit

  • LOTS of settings you can edit
  • Click around!

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Start using data!

  • Next guide topic: Managing Data in LingSync

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