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  <Title>The NITE XML Toolkit: Demonstration from ve corpora</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Of the software packages that provide support for working with language corpora, the NITE XML Toolkit (NXT) is arguably the most mature, offering to combine multiple audio and video signals with crossing structures of linguistic annotation. It is currently in use on a range of corpora. Current users both create annotations in NXT natively and up-translate existing data from other tools into NXT's storage format. Although its biggest strengths are for multimodal language research, some users have found it to be the right solution for work on text and speech corpora without video because of the way it handles annotation and analysis. NXT is open source software, available from Sourceforge and documented at http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/NITE. It is written in Java and uses the Java Media Framework (JMF) for its handling of signals.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In this text to accompany a demonstration, we summarize NXT's functionality, comment on its use for four corpora that together showcase its most novel features, and describe funded future development.</Paragraph>
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