[Corpora-List] User Interface Design for Manual Annotation of Corpora

[Hong Huaqing]

Dear Marc,
 
I would like to recommend MMAX2, one of the best annual annotation tools I've ever used. It was extensively used in annotating IRE/F structures, coreferences, speech act, cohesive devices etc. in various projects. For a recent application, you may want to have a look at SCoRE corpus project of classroom discourse at: http://score.crpp.nie.edu.sg/. For the sample annotation results, please try the Discourse Query section. 
 
For your information, here is the list of pros and cons of MMAX2:
 
Pros: 
A cross-platform application 
Stand-off annotation 
Arbitrarily many levels of annotation 
Graphical rendering of relations between markables 
User-definable & attribute-dependent visualization 
XML output 
Unicode support
 
Cons: 
Only work with plain text
Manual scheme design 
Input files preparation
Annotation checking 
Query console 

To improve its performance, we've developed some utilities/plugins used for our own projects (e.g. scheme designer, input file converter, result checker, and query package).  Surely you can also do so if needed.
 
MMAX2 is available at: 
http://www.eml-research.de/english/research/nlp/download/mmax.php 
 
Best,
 
Huaqing Hong
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National Institute of Education
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Website: http://score.crpp.nie.edu.sg
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From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no on behalf of Marc Carmen
Sent: Tue 6/5/2007 11:20 AM
To: CORPORA at UIB.NO
Subject: [Corpora-List] User Interface Design for Manual Annotation of Corpora



Hello everyone!

I am currently doing research related to manual annotation of corpora.  I have looked at several systems to see what those systems look like; however, I have been trying to find actual studies done that discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different user interfaces.  So far I have found much that is helpful.  That leaves me with three questions for everyone on the list.  

1)      If you or your research group are involved in manual annotation of corpora what software do you currently use?

2)      What advantages/disadvantages do you find with the current software you use?

3)      Do you know of any studies that have been done that discuss the user interface for corpora annotation.

 

I know that there are many variables including size of the tag set, language, complexity of morphology, etc... that may affect the type of interface.  That information would be helpful as well as general information.  

 

Thank you all for your help.

 

 

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Thanks

Marc Carmen

marc.carmen at gmail.com

 

 


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