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MAE user's guide

1. Introduction
   1. Features
   2. License
   3. Contributors
   4. Contact
2. Getting Started
3. Defining an Annotation Task
4. Annotation Workflow
5. Adjudication Workflow
6. IAA calculator

Introduction

MAE (Multi-document Annotation Environment) is a annotation tool for natural language text annotation.

Features

• Flexibility in defining custom annotation tasks,
• Arbitrary tag anchoring, including
  • discontiguous text spans,
  • non-consuming tags,
• Easy creation of links between extent entities
• Visually supported adjudication of multiple annotations
• Stand-off XML output in line with Linguistic Annotation Framework (Ide and Romary, 2004)

License

MAE is a free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Also, current MAE is written using open source software below.

Open Source Software Used in MAE

• Maven (apache2)
• Apache common-io (apache2)
• Xerial sqlite3-JDBC driver (apache2)
• LogBack logging framework (LGPL 2.1)
• SLF4J logging framwork (MIT)
• ORMlite (open source license)
• DKPro Statistics (apache2)

Contributors

• Keigh Rim (Rim, 2016)
• Amber Stubbs (Stubbs, 2011)

Contact

Please use the issue tracker on the project repository for reporting bug or feedback.