Annimate - Your Friendly ANNIS Match Exporter

This is a tool for the convenient export of query results (matches) from the ANNIS[^1] system for linguistic corpora.

It is meant as a supplement to the ANNIS web interface and focuses on file export (as opposed to visualization) of the results of an ANNIS query.

[!NOTE] Annimate is being developed by Matthias Stemmler in cooperation with the Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft at the University of Augsburg.

It is based on the graphANNIS library by Thomas Krause.

Annimate can produce a CSV or an Excel file with one row per match, showing the matched nodes in their context in a KWIC (Key Word in Context) format as well as additional annotations of the matched nodes and metadata on the corpus and document levels. It is similar in functionality to a combination of the ANNIS TextColumnExporter and CSVExporter, but provides a friendlier user interface.

User Guide

For a detailed explanation of how to work with Annimate, see the User Guide.

Download

Annimate is available as a desktop application for Windows, Linux and macOS. The latest release can be downloaded through the links in the following table.

[!IMPORTANT] Please read the Installation section of the User Guide before installing, especially on macOS.

| Operating system | Format | Installation required? | Automatic updates | Download link | | ---------------- | -------------- | ---------------------- | ----------------- | ---------------------------------- | | Windows | Installer | ✅ | ✅ | Annimate_1.7.0_x64-setup.exe | | Linux | AppImage | ❌ | ✅ | Annimate_1.7.0_amd64.AppImage | | Linux | Debian package | ✅ | ❌ | Annimate_1.7.0_amd64.deb | | macOS (silicon) | App Bundle | ✅ | ✅ | Annimate_aarch64.app.tar.gz | | macOS (Intel) | App Bundle | ✅ | ✅ | Annimate_x64.app.tar.gz |

For a list of previous releases, see the releases page.

Feedback

If you have any kind of feedback on Annimate such as a bug report, documentation issue or idea for a new feature, please create an issue.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md

Publication

Stemmler, M., & Zeman, S. (2026). Annimate: Ein Tool zum Datenexport aus den historischen Referenzkorpora. Online-Only Publikationen Des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache, 16. https://doi.org/10.21248/idsopen.16.2026.72

Further Materials

61. Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache "Deutsch im Wandel", Methodenmesse am 12. März 2025, Congress Center Rosengarten Mannheim: Poster, Abstract (in German)

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

[^1]: Krause, Thomas & Zeldes, Amir (2016): ANNIS3: A new architecture for generic corpus query and visualization. in: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 2016 (31). https://dsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/1/118