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TypeCraft 2.0 Editor
In order to allow a smooth transition between the TypeCraft 2.0 editor and the TypeCraft 1.0 editor, TypeCraft will maintain both editors well into 2015, but at the same time we would like to encourage TypeCraft users to switch to the new and improved editor. You still can find a user guide for the old editor at the end of this manual: TypeCraft 1.0 Editor
The Basics
You need to be logged in order to use the TypeCraft editor and edit the TypeCraft wiki(Login screen ] ). Search of the public IGT repository is open to the general public.
After filling in the required login information, you will received a confirmation mail from TypeCraft. This sometimes might take one or two days, since the process is not fully automatic. After confirming your e-mail address, you can login to TypeCraft. The use of the system is free of charge,
When logging in for the first time, TypeCraft creates a public TypeCraft user page for you, using the information that you provided when creating your TypeCraft login.
One of the main goals of TypeCraft is to facilitate the exchange of IGT data.To know who created and annotated the TypeCraft IGT is part of ensuring linguistic data quality and provenance. Is the language(s) that you work with your mother tongue? Do you speak a dialect? Are you a field worker, a language specialist. Information about your work with language is useful to other users of TypeCraft who are interested in your data.If you use TypeCraft in the context of a project, you might want to consider creating a project page on the TypeCraft wiki, or link to your already existing project page somewhere else.
You can go to your public TypeCraft user page by clicking on your name at the right upper corner of your TypeCraft wiki page. The screenshot to the left shows such a user page Wherever you are in on the TypeCraft wiki, clicking your name, in the upper right corner will bring you back to your user page.
My preferences
From your my preferences page, found to the right of your user name, you can customise the TypeCraft wiki. Here you can change your password, register a new e-mail address and allow others users to send you e-mails via TypeCraft.
You also use my preferences to customise the search behaviour of your TypeCraft wiki (wiki search is not to be confused with a search in the TypeCraft IGT database).
An easiest way to find things on your TypeCraft wiki is to use the wiki-search window on the navigation bar. Type for example *annotation* and click *GO* or *SEARCH*[1] The search result will consist of TypeCraft wiki pages from different namespaces that start with the word (A,a)nnotation in their title.
Namespaces are used by a Mediawiki to create collections of wiki pages. My preferenes allows you to set the namespaces in which the TypeCraft wiki should search. Next to the standard namespaces found on any mediawiki, TypeCraft uses its own namespaces. It therefore is best that you search in the following namespaces:
- Main
- User
- TypeCraft
- Category
- Classroom
- Help
When in *my preference* select -> User profile -> *SEARCH*, and select the relevant namespaces by ticking of boxes. Save your preferences.
TypeCraft 2.0 Editor - What is new?
The new editor focuses on the visualisation of the relation between the text and annotated phrases. Units chosen for annotation no longer are necessarily sentences. Instead the TypeCraft 2.0 editor also allows the selection of discourse segments for annotation.
Also different from the TypeCraft 1.0 editor, the new editor no longer assumes that the user wants to annotate the whole text, although we also provide for the complete annotation of texts and a sentence-based text segmentation, as described in …......
Central to the new editor is the text area. A tool tabs menu gives the user access to all main functions, as shown to in the screenshot to the left.
The upper tool tab row (in light yellow since we used the Theme called Sunny for this screenshot)gives access to the Text and Phrase related functions. The Text and Phrase export functions are accessed from here, as well as a function that deletes a Text or Phrases.
Also Editor Themes can be chosen from the upper Tool tabs menu. It allows you to customise the looks of your editor.
The second tool tabs provides access to the following functions:
- Save (saves your text)
- Share (text can be shared between users of TypeCraft. The groups that you are a member of will show in a drop down menu here, and you can save your ::text to any of these groups)
- Publish (allows you to make your text accessible to the general public)
- Template (saving one of your texts as a template, allows other users to make a copy of that text. This is a function
- at present mainly used for teaching)
- New Phrase (after highlighting a segment in your text area, you can use this function to create a new annotation unit, called a Phrase)
- Delete Phrase (the function allows you to delete the activation of a text segment as an annotation phrase. The text element itself will not
- be deleted)
- View Phrase List(will show you all your instantiated Phrases)
- View Discourse Senses(will show the scope of discourse senses as coloured line within the text. Mouse-over will make the sense tag visible)
Annotating with the TypeCraft 2.0 Editor
More about how to annotate with the TypeCraft 2.0 Editor you learn by following this link
TypeCraft 1.0 Editor (This editor will be maintained until summer 2015)
TypeCraft recommends the new, improved TypeCraft 2.0 editor
You have decided not to use the new TypeCraft editor.Follow the steps as indicated below:
Step 1 - enter text into the text field
The Text Editor has on the left side a text field. You use this field to either to import text from a file by copy & paste, or you manually enter sentences.
Step 2 - sentence split
After you have entered your text you click on *Create phrases*. A dialogue box appears. If you have not marked parts of the text (which you normally only do if you want to add more text to an already existing text), TypeCraft will say: Nothing selected. Should TypeCraft use the whole text instead? Answer: yes.
(Step 3 optional) - repeat sentence split
If you are unhappy with the way TypeCraft has split your sentences, revise the punctuation and delete additional spaces between paragraphs. You can repeat this step until you are satisfied with the sentence break up. When you are happy with the initialised sentence you can start to annotated them
Step 4 - Initializing your annotation table
Click on one of the individual blue initialised phrases on the right-hand side of your Text Editor window. A small window pops-up, saying:
TypeCraft wants to know: |
This phrase has no words yet.
You can initialise words and morphemes automatically. Separate words by spaces (" ") and morphemes by hyphens ("-"). If you click cancel you can insert words and morphemes manually. |
It seems that we have added this window to confuse you ;); what we really mean is this: You have 3 different options as how to start using the annotator If you want the phrase in the input mask inserted into a table without any further segmentation, click OK. If you want the text in the input mask inserted into the table and you in addition want to split some of the words into smaller segments before they are inserted into the table,you can do that by inserting hyphens "-" or spaces " " now. Click OK. Do not be afraid of possible mistakes you might make when inserting hyphens at this point. You can always change what you do later.
If you don't want to start off with the material in the input mask, but rather wish to fill all material into the table manually click cancel. A one-column skeleton of a table appears, and here you can fill in text in the top line - one word per column. You create a new column by clicking in an existing column: you get a menu where you left-click, and get the options 'New word before', 'New word after' or 'Delete word'. By clicking on either of the former options a new empty column appears, where a word can be written in. On the second line in the table, morphological units are written in in a similar manner - the menu now offers 'New morpheme before', 'New morpheme after' or 'Delete morpheme', and in similar fashion as above, in the first two cases an empty column is created for being filled manually. These manual processes can be performed also if one has chosen one of the first two bullet-point options presented above. Thus, one can at any point go back and correct mistakes, fill in more information, etc.
- ↑ The main difference between *Go* and *Search* is that go brings you directly to the page with the title that you typed into the search window. *GO* also allows you to create a page of that name in case that it does not exist yet