NOMOS Annotation Software

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Summary

NOMOS is a generic, highly configurable, cross-platform multimedia annotation system, with an emphasis on supporting annotation of multi-party spoken discourse. NOMOS is Java-based, platform-independent, and open source. Its principal features include the following:

• Highly configurable
  • User-defined annotation ontologies (schemata)
  • Built-in GUI customization framework
  • Simple Java plugin framework for designing a highly specialized annotation interface
  • Packaged with numerous pre-defined GUI configurations, including...
    • Speech transcription
    • Hierarchical topic segmentation
    • Decision-making and meeting action-items
• Compatible with popular corpora
  • Includes import scripts for AMI, ICSI, ISL, and NIST Meeting Corpora; MRDA; CALO project meetings, and more...
  • Simple Java plugin interface for user-defined corpus import scripts
• Synchronized media playback
  • Java Media Framework-based multi-channel audio and video
  • Simple interface for providing your own media back-end
• Multiple methods for convenient processing of annotations
  • GUI-based data query construction for quick export of annotations to flat database format
  • Automatically-generated schema-conforming Java classes give programmatic access to annotations
• W3C standard-compliant ontology-based semantic annotation
  • Produces OWL annotations in RDF/XML format

Publications

• NOMOS: A Semantic Web Software Framework for Annotation of Multimodal Corpora. John Niekrasz and Alexander Gruenstein. In The Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC '06), Genoa, Italy (2006)

Credits

Current Maintainers:

• John Niekrasz
• Justin Stimatze

Past Contributers:

• Aurélie Beaumel
• Michael Deeringer
• Patrick Ehlen
• Claire Gilbert
• Yarone Greif
• Alexander Gruenstein
• Kristiina Jokinen
• Vincenzo Pallotta
• Stanley Peters
• Matthew Purver
• Renee Trochet