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MDS<i>Writer</i> is a software for manually creating multi-document summarization corpora and a platform for developing complex annotation tasks spanning multiple steps.

Please use the following citation:

@InProceedings{Meyer:2016:ACLdemo,
  author    = {Meyer, Christian M. and Benikova, Darina and Mieskes, Margot and Gurevych, Iryna},
  title     = {MDSWriter: Annotation tool for creating high-quality multi-document summarization corpora},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): System Demonstrations},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Berlin, Germany},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {97--102},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P16/P16-4017.pdf}
}

Abstract: In this paper, we present MDS<i>Writer</i>, a novel open-source annotation tool for creating multi-document summarization corpora. A major innovation of our tool is that we divide the complex summarization task into multiple steps which enables us to efficiently guide the annotators and to record all their intermediate results and user–system interaction data. This allows evaluating the individual components of a complex summarization system and learning from the human composition process. MDS<i>Writer</i> is highly flexible and can be adapted to multiple other tasks.

Contact person: Christian M. Meyer, http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/people/meyer

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Documentation and Tutorial

Requirements

Installation

Extensibility

Adapting MDS<i>Writer</i> to a new task works best if you first follow the installation guide and get the basic system to work. For developing your application, we recommend using a J2EE-ready IDE, such as Eclipse or IntelliJ. The following steps are necessary to make MDS<i>Writer</i> do what your application needs: