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Welcome to the MMAX Annotation Tool Homepage.
New: MMAX2 is now an open-source project at http://mmax2.net!
This web page exits only for historical reasons and covers primarily the new MMAX2 annotation tool. Information regarding its predecessor MMAX (including a list of projects using MMAX) can be found here.
Please direct all questions, comments and suggestions regarding this web site and the featured annotation tool(s) to mmax@eml-research.de.
Some of MMAX2's features:
MMAX2 features separation of base data and annotations (i.e. markables) on the file level by means of stand-off annotation.
In contrast to its predecessor, MMAX2 now supports arbitrarily many levels of annotation, each of which resides in a separate file.
Arbitrarily many relations between markables (both intra- and inter-level) can now be defined, annotated and browsed. The following screen shot shows how a set relation can be used to model and visualize coreference.
Similarly, a pointer relation can be used to link a bridging expression to its bridging antecedent.
MMAX2 now also supports attribute-dependent rendering of markables.
In the above screen shots, e.g., coref-level markables that are
actually part of a coreference set are rendered in italics, while
singleton coref-level markables are rendered in plain text.
The screen shot below (taken from the SPAAC project) demonstrates a different type of visualization:
Each
utterance is 'tagged' in the display with its associated speech act tag
(left) and its syntactic type (right). In addition, utterances with a
negative polarity appear in red, those with a positive polarity in
green.
MMAX2 comes with a Markable Browser
add-on which allows for easy browsing through markable levels in either
alphabetic or document order. The markable browser also has a KWIC-Index view for easily inspecting markables in their context.
The MMAX2 Project Wizard allows you to create a MMAX2 project from raw text.
Apart from tokenization and XML-conversion, the wizard can also create
markables based on structural information in the input file. See the
updated MMAX2 Quick Start Guide (also included in the tool download) for details.
MMAX: Multi-Modal Annotation in XML
Download MMAX1
Note: This section is about an old version of MMAX. This version is stable and will remain to be available for free download. However, the tool will not be developed any further. The only version that is being actively developed is now MMAX2.
Click here to download the complete MMAX package (latest version 0.94 build 77) (tar-gzipped) (incl. Apache Xalan and Xerces).
This is required for the first installation of MMAX1.
Click here to download the latest version (0.94 build 77) only.
Note: From version 0.865 on, MMAX will contain beta-versions of the MMAX Discourse API.
Last Update: April 14th, 2003 (0.94 build 77)
Note: Please reference http://mmax2.net if you use the MMAX tool in your projects.
You might also want to include a reference to a MMAX-related paper from our publications section.
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