A tool for annotating word sequences.
On startup, this reads a file called config/folders.txt, which contains paths to folders containing documents to annotate. The format of the file is
nickname path format
where format is either ta if the files are serialized TextAnnotations, or conll if the files are in CoNLL NER format. See
data/eng-conll/eng.conll for an example of CoNLL NER format.
TextAnnotations are the core datastructure from illinois-cogcomp-nlp, from University of Illinois CogComp group.
Specify the type and color of the desired labels in config/labels.txt. The format is:
labelname color
Where color is any acceptable CSS color (example).
Requires Java 8 and Maven. Run:
$ ./run.sh
This will start the server on port 8080. Point a browser to localhost:8080.
It will ask you to specify a username, which is then tied to your activities in that session. All annotations
that you do will be written to a path called <orig>-annotation-<username>, where <orig> is the original path
specified in folders.txt, and <username> is what you chose as username.
Suppose you do some annotations, then leave the session, and come back again. If you log in with the same username as the previous session, it will reload all of the annotations right where you left off, so no work is lost.
You make annotations by clicking on words and selecting a label. If you want to remove a label, you can either press the No Label button, or you can right click on a word.
One caveat: if you label one word, and then label an adjacent word with the same tag, these tags will be automatically joined. However, if the word to be tagged is between two words which are already tagged, it will always join to the right tag, and not the left tag. If you want to tag consecutive tokens separately, but with the same label (as in, Denver Colorado), you need to tag Denver first, then the word after Colorado, then Colorado, then remove the word after Colorado. Clunky, I know. Suggestions for improvement? Open an issue or a pull request!
A document is saved either by pressing the Save button, or by pressing the Next or Previous buttons. If you navigate away using the links on the top of the page, the document is not saved.
Currently the labels supported are LOC, ORG, GPE, and PER. These can be changed easily (just grep, and replace), and may be generalized in a future version of this interface.
This is still in development. If you want to spend a lot of time annotating something, please make sure that the annotations are being saved correctly as you go along.
I welcome issues and pull requests.