ANNIS is an open source project distributed under the Apache Public License, Version 2.0.

Current version: ANNIS 4.12.3

ANNIS requires the Installation of Java OpenJDK 11. If your operating system does not already include Java, we recommend the installation of the open-source and free of charge installers provided at https://adoptium.net/. Starting from ANNIS 4.0.0, instead of using the relational database PostgreSQL, a custom AQL implementation based on graphs called graphANNIS is used. ANNIS 4 currently only supports a sub-set of the ANNIS Query language (AQL) compared to the legacy ANNIS version 3.7. Full support is planned, but some backward-compatible features of AQL will only be available in a compatibility mode. See the chapter “Differences in Compatibility Mode” of the User Guide for more information.

Please report any issues in the GitHub issue tracker.

Downloads

There are two editions of ANNIS, one for the local use on a standard computer (ANNIS Desktop) and one which is only needed when running ANNIS on a server.

• ANNIS Desktop: annis-4.12.3-desktop.jar (local installation for Windows, Linux and Mac, see the user guide for installation instructions)
• ANNIS Server: annis-4.12.3-server.jar (an executable file which starts both the user interface and the backend service, see the user guide for installation and configuration instructions)

What’s new in version 4.12.3?

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Fixed

• Grid visualizer now also display spans that do not belong to any node layer when the “layer” is not specified in the resolver configuration. Before this fix, the layer name was not checked, but the node still needed to be part of a layer.
• Updated to graphANNIS 3.5.1 which fixes an issue where a backup folder in the database might not be loaded correctly and an issue where impossible precedence queries created a “File too large” error.
• Allow to show text visualizations for documents where the token are not connected to the textual data source.
• Resolver entries with the “element” type “node” but no layer are now always shown.
• Make the audio and video visualizer a little bit more robust when they are not pre-loaded.

See the change log for changes of all previous versions.

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Legacy version: ANNIS 3.7.1

This version requires a PostgreSQL installation to run. PostgreSQL versions 9.4 to 14 are supported. The ANNIS the server version (but not the desktop kickstarter) also requires a running web-server (e.g. Apache Tomcat or Jetty). Both versions require the Installation of Java OpenJDK 8. If your operating system does already include Java. we recommend the installation of the open-source and free of charge installers provided at https://adoptium.net/.

For installation instructions see the Installation section in the User Guide. There are two editions of ANNIS, one for the local use on a standard computer (ANNIS Kickstarter) and one which is only needed when running a web-server.

• ANNIS Kickstarter: annis-kickstarter-3.7.1-distribution.zip (local installation for Windows, Linux and Mac)
• ANNIS server:
  • annis-gui-3.7.1.war (server GUI distribution)
  • annis-service-3.7.1-distribution.tar.gz (server service distribution)

Source code

Source code (including the latest experimental developments) is available together with our bugtracker/feature requests (‘issues’) at our GitHub project.

Older distributions

Older versions of ANNIS can be downloaded from https://github.com/korpling/ANNIS/releases.

Converters

For corpora to be imported into the system, they must be converted into it’s native relational database format using the Pepper converter.

Other Converters:

• Concatenation script in Perl to merge multiple relAnnis corpora (creates one big corpus containing input relANNIS corpora as subcorpora)s
• Excel Plugin (EXMARaLDA <> Excel and Excel to PAULA XML; Windows only)

Further documentation on the PAULA XML format may be found here.