Dear all, I received this email and I think this event may be relevant to some of you. Best regards, Menno We invite you to join the Machine Learning for Language Documentation (MELD) Lab and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) at 5pm CEST (UTC+2) / 8am PDT (UTC-7) on June 2, 2026 to learn about the ELAN software. Divya Kanekal is a Software Developer at MPI who recently took the lead of ELAN development from Han Sloetjes who retired after many years. She will be available to answer questions and share the history, challenges, and the current status of ELAN development, an annotation tool for audio and video recordings. The purpose of the event is threefold. User will hear firsthand why ELAN is the way it is, and maybe, why it isn’t the way they wish. Divya can hear firsthand how user interact with ELAN. Software developers interested in the specialized linguistic software can learn more about this space. Attendance is free. Please register here to get the Zoom link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeqQO9jui8-Zvic32CKiAW1xfPJsz__G0Mu... We look forward to enjoying a linguistics and software gabfest with you! -- Prof Menno van Zaanen [email protected] Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________