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The Story Workbench is an extensible platform for the linguistic annotation of arbitrary text.

Note: (9/20/15) The Story Workbench was developed using the Eclipse 3.4.2 Application Framework. That version of Eclipse seems to be incompatible with the latest Java 1.8 releases from Oracle, resulting in failure to start. If you have one of these versions of Java installed as the default Java on your system, you will need to install a compatible JRE (Oracle Java 1.5 works) to get the the workbench to run. There are at least three ways of specifying that a workbench install use a different JRE from the default. One, you can add a line to the “workbench.ini” file inside the workbench main directory, using the “-vm” flag to point to the compatible JRE. Alternatively, you can copy the “jre” directory and its contents from an Oracle Java 1.5 install into the workbench folder. Finally, if you are on 64-bit Windows, you can use the Development version of the workbench below, which includes the Oracle 64-bit Java 1.5 JRE, and should work out of the box.