Using VOICE-Online
5 Working with output
This section offers information on two additional
features which can be used when working with output of
corpus searches: the context
menu and the speaker
information pop-up.
When presented with the search results, there are three
main options via a context menu: bookmarking an
utterance (
bookmark), navigating to a
complete corpus text (
view text), and
increasing the scope of an utterance (
inc
scope).
The context menu can be activated by clicking on the
respective utterance using the right (!) button of the
mouse. Alternatively, the context menu for an utterance
can also be activated by left-clicking on the panel with
the triangular symbol on the very left of the search result.
The context menu is available only in VOICE style and plain style. It is not
available in KWIC
style.
5.1.1 Creating a bookmark
You can bookmark an individual search result (i.e. a
particular utterance). This is done by
activating the context
menu for the respective utterance and clicking
on the option
bookmark. A small pop-up
window appears in which a short comment can be added
to label the bookmark.
To save the bookmark press the button
bookmark at the bottom of the pop-up
window. For more information on retrieving bookmarks
see section
Bookmarks.
5.1.2 Navigating into a corpus text
It is possible to go directly from a search result
(i.e. a particular utterance) to where this utterance
occurs in the complete corpus text. This can be done
by
activating the context
menu for the respective utterance and clicking
on the option
view text. This brings up
the whole corpus text with the selected utterance
highlighted in pink in the corpus text.
It is possible to return to the list of search
results by clicking on the button last
results, which can be found below the input
box.
5.1.3 Increasing the scope of a search result
You can increase the scope of an
individual search result (i.e. a particular utterance)
to view the preceding and successive utterance. This
can be done by activating the
context menu for the
respective utterance and clicking on the option
inc scope. This feature can be used
repeatedly in order to increase the scope as much as is
deemed necessary. Similarly, activating the context
menu after the scope has been increased allows for the
option
dec scope to decrease the scope by
one utterance again. This can be done repeatedly until
the utterance is displayed on its own again.
When you click on the speaker ID
(e.g.
S6:) in a transcript or in an
utterance in the search results, a
speaker
information pop-up window appears.
The speaker information pop-up provides details
about the speaker concerned, i.e. her/his age, sex,
and first language(s). The languages are coded
according to ISO standards, as specified in the
corpus
header.
The speaker information pop-up also provides cross
references to the individual in the corpus and lists
all events in which this particular individual
participates as a speaker (See the distinction between
‘speakers’ and ‘individuals’ in the corpus
statistics.). Additionally, it lists the role of
the speaker and the speaker ID (e.g. S1,
S5, etc) in the event
concerned. Specifications of the speaker roles are
provided in the corpus
header.
