Challenge: Summarization is a challenging problem, and it is difficult to create, correct, and evaluate the summaries manually.
Approach: They propose an open-source tool for meeting annotation, alignment, and evaluation . the tool aims to provide an efficient and clear interface for fast annotation .
Outcome: The proposed tool is open-source and installable from PyPI.

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