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