After the Search is completed, ELAN displays the following search results:
When performing multiple search actions one after another, a search history is created. With this feature it becomes possible to browse through all the entered queries:
When closing the search dialog, the query history is removed. If nonetheless you want to save a certain search command, have a look at Saving and loading queries.
After a search operation, one can perform another search within the results of the previous action. To achieve this, select Search on current result from the Query menu in the Search dialog window. This will get you the following window:
By specifying extra search constraints, you can narrow down the results. This
is similar to the addition of an extra search constraint.
When using complex queries, or one is repeating the same search on annotation files, it is convenient to reuse a query. This is possible in ELAN thanks to the save and load query functionality.
To export the results of a query to a tab-separated file, go through these steps:
An exported file looks as follows:
If you right click in the table containing the search results, a popup menu
appears. Tick the checkboxes to show or hide columns that are related to the found
annotations. In the same popup menu you will find the option Export Table
as tab-delimited text, which literally saves the displayed result table
to a text file, as shown in the example below.