Getting started with Dolmen
Dolmen is a free software toolbox for linguistics research. It offers a user-friendly interface to manage, annotate and use language corpora. It is particularly well suited for dealing with time-aligned data. The main features it offers are:
- Project management: organize files into projects and manage versions.
- Extensible metadata: files can be annotated with tags, which allow you to sort and organize your data.
- Interaction with Praat: Dolmen can read TextGrid files and open files directly in Praat.
- Powerful search engine: build and save complex queries; search patterns across tiers.
- Standard-based: Dolmen files are encoded in XML and Unicode.
Dolmen runs on all major platforms (Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux) and is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
To learn more about Dolmen, read the documentation which is available from the Help
menu. You can also access specific topics directly:
- The main window
- Managing projects
- Managing metadata
- Managing bookmarks
- Annotation files
- Executing queries
- Regular expressions
- editing preferences
Most features in Dolmen are available through context menus: to see what features are available for a given component, simply right-click on it to display its context menu. Important features are also available in the main menu bar.
The latest version of Dolmen can be downloaded from www.julieneychenne.info/dolmen. If you encounter any problem or bug, please write to jeychenne@gmail.com.