Ebook: Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages : The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages

For a long time, Toolbox has been the most used software dedicated to text annotation in the community of field linguists, especially for African linguistics. However, its limitations, and the growing need to pair text and sound, have made it important to find another solution to text annotation. This paper, aimed at a readership of information technology specialists, is a presentation of the software development conducted within the CorpAfroAs project on the basis of the software ELAN, developed by the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen. This development, whose result is the ELAN-CorpA software, involves the addition of an internal parser linked to a lexicon, for semi-automatic interlinearization purposes.