Representing and accessing multi-level annotations in MMAX2
Christoph Emanuel Müller · 2006
MMAX21 is a versatile, XML-based annotation tool which has already been used in a variety of annotation projects. It is also the tool of choice in the ongoing project DIANA-Summ, which deals with anaphora resolution and its application to spoken dialog summarization. The project uses the ICSI Meeting Corpus (Janin et al., 2003), a corpus of multi-party dialogs which contains a considerable amount of simultaneous speech. It features a semi-automatically generated segmentation in which the corpus developers tried to track the flow of the dialog by inserting segment starts approximately whenever a person started talking. As a result, the corpus has some interesting structural properties, most notably overlap, that are challenging for an XML-based representation format. The following brief overview of MMAX2 focuses on this aspect, using examples from the ICSI Meeting Corpus.