Updated printable documentation: March 07
Download v 0.2.
Notes on version 0.2: In October 2006, we decided to move
over NXT documentation from being completely web-based to being
written in DocBook so that we can generate HTML, JavaDoc, and PDF at
will. We are rewriting much of the documentation at the same
time. Versions of the documentation numbered before v1.0 are
incomplete, although the outline gives some idea of our intentions for
it. In this version, version 0.2, not all of the information has been
checked for accuracy yet. The most likely difficulties concern the
following areas: corpus resources, ontologies, and object sets;
validation; incomplete description of data set concepts. In addition,
not all the formatting works, and the query reference manual has not
been fully converted over to DocBook, so it is incomplete and hard to
read in this version.
Motivation, History and Funding for NXT
Technical Documents
These are project internal documents that the NXT partners have agreed
to make web-accessible.
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Formal specification
of the NITE Object Model, the abstract data model used by
the NITE XML Toolkit.
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End user documentation of NiteQL
, the query language that operates over data conforming
to the NITE Object Model.
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Formal specification
of NiteQL, the query language that operates over data conforming
to the NITE Object Model.
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Metadata
information describing the metadata format required by the NITE
Object Model, and how to produce one for your data.
- A
document introducing our display object library and describing how
to use display objects as building blocks for data display from
stylesheets (pdf format)
Documentation for Programmers
There is a space here for a general overview of the programmers'
API provided by NXT, but currently there's only the Javadoc that comes
with the NXT dowload. We will generally provide Javadoc from the
latest CVS build which will not necessarily tally with the NXT
version you downloaded, so don't rely on it.
Academic publications
Because we're academics, it helps us if you cite one of our papers
when making use of NXT. Please be aware that there were other software
products to arise out of the NITE project, and be sure to credit the
correct one.
Papers about the NITE XML Toolkit or development concerns
- Carletta, J., Evert, S., Heid, U., Kilgour, J. (in press)
The NITE XML Toolkit: data model and query. Language Resources
and Evaluation Journal.
- Carletta, J., Evert, S., Heid, U., Kilgour, J., Robertson, J., and
Voormann, H. (2003). The
NITE XML Toolkit: flexible annotation for multi-modal language
data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers,
special issue on Measuring Behavior, 35(3), 353-363.
HTML
format which will differ in formatting details from the official
version; we are having difficulty generating postscript/pdf for this
document.
- Carletta, J., Kilgour, J., O'Donnell, T., Evert, S., and Voormann,
H. (2003). The
NITE Object Model Library for Handling Structured Linguistic
Annotation on Multimodal Data Sets. Proceedings of the EACL
Workshop on Language Technology and the Semantic Web (3rd Workshop on
NLP and XML, NLPXML-2003).
- Mayo, N., Kilgour, J., and Carletta, J. (2006)
Towards an alternative implementation of NXT's query language via
XQuery. EACL Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural
Language Processing, Trento, Italy, April 4th.
- Reidsma, D., Jovanovic H., Hofs D. (2005) Designing
annotation tools based on properties of annotation problems.
Measuring Behavior 2005 , 5th International Conference on Methods and
Techniques in Behavioral Research, 30 August - 2 September 2005,
Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Research papers that mention NXT in use (more than in passing)
- Calhoun, S., Nissim, M., Steedman, M., Brenier, J. (2005)
A framework for annotating information structure in discourse. In
Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky, ACL2005 Conference
Workshop, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005.
- Carletta, J.C. and Kilgour, J. (2005) The
NITE XML Toolkit Meets the ICSI Meeting Corpus: Import, Annotation,
and Browsing. MLMI'04: Proceedings of the Workshop on Machine
Learning for Multimodal Interaction. Samy Bengio and Herve Bourlard,
eds.
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3361.
ISBN: 3-540-24509-X. This is an updated version of a workshop paper.
- Carletta, J., Dingare, S., Nissim, M., and Nikitina, T. (2004).
Using
the NITE XML Toolkit on the Switchboard Corpus to study syntactic
choice: a case study. Fourth Language Resources and Evaluation
Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May.
- Gut, U., Milde, J-T., Voormann, H., Heid, U. (2004)
Querying annotated speech corpora. Speech Prosody
(International Conference), Nara, Japan, March 23-26, ed. by Bernard
Bel and Isabelle Marlien, ISCA, p. 569-572.
- Heid, U., Voormann, H., Milde, J-T, Gut, U., Erk, K., and Pado, S.
(2004) Querying
both time-aligned and hierarchical corpora with NXT Search. Fourth
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal,
May.
- Isard, A., C. Brockmann and J. Oberlander, 2005.
Re-Creating
Dialogues from a Corpus , Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2005
Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation, July 2005,
Birmingham, U.K.
Pre-NITE paper motivating the concept
- Carletta, J., McKelvie, D., & Isard, A., Mengel, A., Klein, M.,
and Møller, M.B. (2005). A
generic approach to software support for linguistic annotation using
XML. In G. Sampson and D. McCarthy (eds.), Corpus Linguistics:
Readings in a Widening Discipline. London and NY: Continuum
International. ISBN: 082648803X. [Strictly speaking, this is a book
of reprints. This particular paper is based on a previous draft from
2000 that had not been published but was kicking around the web.]
Paper about the NITE project in general
- Soria, C., Bernsen, N. O., Cadee, N., Carletta, J., Dybkjaer, L.,
Evert, S., Heid, U., Isard, A., Kolodnytsky, M., Lauer, C., Lezius,
W., Noldus, L., Pirrelli, V., Reithinger, N., Vogele, A. (2002). Advanced tools
for the study of natural interactivity. Third International
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Las
Palmas, Spain, May. PDF here.
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