Navigating APLS

After your initial login, logging in at https://apls.pitt.edu/labbcat will bring you to the home page for APLS.

This documentation page covers the basics of navigating APLS and the layout of the home page.

On this page

1. home page layout
2. APLS navigation menus
   1. Header menu
   2. Footer menu
3. home page

home page layout

APLS navigation menus

There are two menus that are present on every APLS page:

• The header menu
• The footer menu

The header menu is the main navigation tool for accessing the main pages of APLS.

The footer menu provides links to documentation for citing APLS, the licenses governing the use of APLS, and the versions of APLS and LaBB-CAT currently being used.

Header menu

The header menu is displayed at the top of every APLS webpage.

From left to right, the links in the header menu allow you to navigate to:

• The user security page to change your password, like you did during your initial login.
  • This link will display the username you are currently logged in with.
• The home page.
• The search page.
• The extract page.
• The participants page.
• The transcripts page.
• The documentation pages.
  • This is where you are right now!
• The question mark button pulls up the online help for the page you currently have open.
  • The online help pages come from the original LaBB-CAT documentation, so the information on these pages may not match what you see in APLS. When in doubt, consult the information on the documentation pages first.

Footer menu

The footer menu is displayed at the bottom of every APLS webpage.

The footer menu provides links with information about:

• Licenses for APLS, and for the LaBB-CAT software and JavaScript that APLS is built on.
• Version history for APLS and the version of LaBB-CAT currently used by APLS.
• Citation information for APLS and LaBB-CAT.
• Attribution information for the LaBB-CAT software.

home page

The home page has direct links to some useful APLS pages and an overview of the data in APLS.

From left to right, the available links are:

• Where do I start?
  • This takes you to the APLS 101/Getting started section of the documentation pages.
• Browse transcripts
  • This brings up the transcripts page, which is explained on the Browsing transcripts documentation page.
• Browse participants
  • This brings up the participants page, which is explained on the Browsing participants documentation page.
• Search the corpus
  • This brings up the search page, which is explained on the Searching the corpus documentation page.
• Credits
  • This brings up the APLS credits page, which provides information about resources used in creating APLS.

Below these links is information about the data in APLS. From left to right, this information shows the current counts for:

• Total main speaker participants.
• Total transcripts.
• Total different types of annotation layers.
• Total word tokens.
• Unique word types.
• Total aligned segments.
• Total duration of all transcripts in hours:minutes:seconds.