- AmiGram - A General-Purpose Tool for Mutltimodal Corpus Annotation Description AmiGram is the AMI Graphical Representation and Annotation Module. It allows for the time-line based annotation of NXT corpora in a layer based environment. AmiGram is a further developed annotation tool, which descends from the NITE annotation tool GRAM. AmiGram is based on NXT, an XML language developed in the NITE project for the structuring and representation of corpora. Unlike special-purpose tools, AmiGram's approach is to integrate all necessary functionality into one monolithic program. By doing so, it allows for the editing of multiple annotation layers in parallel, visually comparing different layers as well as examining them. As the common denominator for these, NXT's layer-based topology is displayed in AmiGram's Observable Track Annotation Board (OTAB), a flexible display depicting atomic annotation blocks in a vertically stacked fashion with a horizontal time-line as in a musical score. AmiGram also allows for running an arbitrary number of media players. Screenshot Documentation How to Download How to Compile How to Annotate Keyboard shortcuts Downloads Source Code amigram-1.0-src.zip Documents manual_amigram.pdf External Libraries Each external library used by AmiGram has its own LICENSE file in the 'lib/licenses' directory of the distribution. file version web page license icons.jar ? [collection of icons used in the NITE project] view jdom.jar ? http://www.jdom.org/ view jh.jar ? http://java.sun.com/products/javahelp/ view jmanual.jar ? http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/TIGER/TIGERSearch/subprojects.shtml view looks.jar ? http://www.jgoodies.com/ view nxt.jar ? http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/NITE/ view smoothmetal.jar ? http://smoothmetal.sourceforge.net/ view xalan.jar ? http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html view xercesImpl.jar ? http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-j/index.html view xml-apis.jar ? [collection of XML APIs used in the Xalan project] view Bugs Error message during startup (since using the newest version of nxt.jar): [java] net.sourceforge.nite.nom.NOMException: Cannot find layer of element 'nite:root' from corpus: no metadata information [java] at net.sourceforge.nite.nom.nomwrite.impl.NOMWriteElement.getLayer(Unknown Source) [java] at de.dfki.ami.amigram.tools.NOMCommunicator.readTheAnnotaionsFromTheCorups(NOMCommunicator.java:711) [java] at de.dfki.ami.amigram.gui.MenuBar.initializeDataBank(MenuBar.java:538) [java] at de.dfki.ami.amigram.gui.DesktopFrame.(DesktopFrame.java:140) [java] at de.dfki.ami.amigram.gui.MainFrame.main(MainFrame.java:94) updated: 29.06 2006