diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 013b1c1..84ad971 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -8,14 +8,41 @@
 
     <groupId>de.uros.citlab</groupId>
     <artifactId>textalignment</artifactId>
-    <version>1.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.0.3</version>
+
 
     <parent>
-        <groupId>de.uros.citlab</groupId>
+	<groupId>de.uros.citlab</groupId>
+	<relativePath>../CITlabParentPom/pom.xml</relativePath>
         <artifactId>parent_pom</artifactId>
-        <version>1.5</version>
+        <version>1.6</version>
     </parent>
 
+    <build>
+       <plugins>
+          <plugin>
+             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+             <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+             <version>3.2.2</version>
+             <executions>
+                 <execution>
+                     <phase>package</phase>
+                     <goals>
+                         <goal>shade</goal>
+                     </goals>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <transformers>
+                            <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
+                                <mainClass>de.uros.citlab.textalignment.AlignText</mainClass>
+                            </transformer>
+                        </transformers>
+                    </configuration>
+                 </execution>
+             </executions>
+          </plugin>
+       </plugins>
+    </build>
+
     <dependencies>
         <!--CITLAB-->
         <dependency>
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/uros/citlab/textalignment/AlignText.java b/src/main/java/de/uros/citlab/textalignment/AlignText.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6e2025
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/de/uros/citlab/textalignment/AlignText.java
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+package de.uros.citlab.textalignment;
+
+import de.uros.citlab.confmat.CharMap;
+import de.uros.citlab.confmat.ConfMat;
+import de.uros.citlab.textalignment.types.LineMatch;
+//import org.junit.Assert;
+//import org.junit.Test;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.lang.NullPointerException;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.util.Scanner;
+import java.util.*;
+
+public class AlignText {
+
+  private static Random r = new Random(1234);
+  private static double propNaC = 0.5;
+  private static double doubleChar = 0.5;
+  private static double variance = 0.5;
+  private static double offsetBP = 10.0;
+
+  public static void main(String[] args) {
+
+    long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+
+    TextAligner textAligner = new TextAligner(" ", 4.0, 0.2, 6.0, 0 // threshold 0.1: only very trustful matches, less than 0.01 = caution
+    );
+    Scanner s1;
+    Scanner s2;
+    ArrayList<String> references = new ArrayList<String>();
+    ArrayList<String> recos = new ArrayList<String>();
+
+    try {
+      s1 = new Scanner(new File(args[0]));
+
+      while (s1.hasNextLine()) {
+        references.add(s1.nextLine());
+      }
+      s1.close();
+    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
+      e.printStackTrace();
+    }
+
+    try {
+      s2 = new Scanner(new File(args[1]));
+      while (s2.hasNextLine()) {
+        recos.add(s2.nextLine());
+      }
+      s2.close();
+    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
+      e.printStackTrace();
+    }
+
+    CharMap cm = getCharMap(args[2]);
+
+    List<ConfMat> recoConfMatsList = new ArrayList<>();
+    for (String reco : recos) {
+      recoConfMatsList.add(generateConfMat(cm, reco, r));
+    }
+    List<LineMatch> alignmentResult = textAligner.getAlignmentResult(references, recoConfMatsList);
+
+    List<String> res = new LinkedList<>();
+    for (int i = 0; i < alignmentResult.size(); i++) {
+      LineMatch lineMatch = alignmentResult.get(i);
+      res.add(lineMatch == null ? null : lineMatch.getReference());
+    }
+
+    int count = 0;
+    boolean isNull;
+    for (int i = 0; i < alignmentResult.size(); i++) {
+      isNull = alignmentResult.get(i) == null;
+      if (!isNull) {
+        count += 1;
+      }
+    }
+    System.out.printf("Number of aligned lines : %d out of %d \n", count, alignmentResult.size());
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < alignmentResult.size(); i++) {
+      try {
+        LineMatch match = alignmentResult.get(i);
+        String reference = match.getReference();
+        double confidence = match.getConfidence();
+        System.out.printf("line: %d prediction: %s reference: %s confidence: %s\n", i, recos.get(i), reference,
+            confidence);
+      } catch (NullPointerException e) {
+        // ignore this line
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  public static CharMap getCharMap(String chars) {
+    CharMap res = new CharMap();
+    for (int i=0; i < chars.length(); i++) {
+      res.add(chars.charAt(i));
+    }
+    res.add(' ');
+    res.add("\t");
+    res.add("'");
+    res.add("\"");
+    return res;
+  }
+
+  private static ConfMat generateConfMat(CharMap cm, String reference, Random rnd) {
+    return generateConfMat(cm, reference, rnd, propNaC, doubleChar, variance, offsetBP);
+  }
+
+  private static ConfMat generateConfMat(CharMap cm, String reference, Random rnd, double propNaC, double doubleChar,
+      double variance, double offsetBP) {
+    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+    char last = CharMap.NaC;
+    for (int i = 0; i < reference.length(); i++) {
+      char cur = reference.charAt(i);
+
+      if (cm.get(cur) == null) {
+        throw new RuntimeException("character '" + cur + "' is not in CharMap");
+      }
+      if (cur == last || rnd.nextDouble() < propNaC) {
+        sb.append(CharMap.NaC);
+      }
+      sb.append(cur);
+      if (rnd.nextDouble() < doubleChar) {
+        sb.append(CharMap.NaC);
+      }
+      last = cur;
+    }
+    if (rnd.nextDouble() < propNaC) {
+      sb.append(CharMap.NaC);
+    }
+    // BestPath ready
+    String bp = sb.toString();
+    double[][] mat = new double[bp.length()][cm.size()];
+    for (int i = 0; i < mat.length; i++) {
+      double[] vec = mat[i];
+      for (int j = 0; j < vec.length; j++) {
+        vec[j] = rnd.nextGaussian() * variance;
+      }
+      vec[cm.get(bp.charAt(i))] += offsetBP;
+    }
+    return new ConfMat(cm, mat);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/uros/citlab/textalignment/TextAligner.java b/src/main/java/de/uros/citlab/textalignment/TextAligner.java
index d64c26c..f975bc6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/uros/citlab/textalignment/TextAligner.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/uros/citlab/textalignment/TextAligner.java
@@ -106,7 +106,17 @@ private void init() {
                 impl.addCostCalculator(new CostCalculatorSkipChar(1 + 2, 1));
             }
         }
+        
+        setLoggingLevel(ch.qos.logback.classic.Level.INFO);
+        
     }
+    
+
+    public static void setLoggingLevel(ch.qos.logback.classic.Level level) {
+        ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger root = (ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger) org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME);
+        root.setLevel(level);
+    }
+
 
     public void setNacOffset(double nacOffset) {
         this.nacOffset = nacOffset;
@@ -302,4 +312,4 @@ private void setRecognition(List<ConfMat> confMats) {
         }
     }
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}