<div dir="ltr">Thank you Ce for pointing this out. I think you're right.<div><br></div><div>I was just trying to get something done, and when it took Pontus some time to reply, I thought of asking the corpora community for a solution. </div>
<div><br></div><div>But my email to Pontus included appreciation of her (?) effort and tool. We actually like the tool here, and have decided to use it instead of the one we're currently using. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Ce Wang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hustwangce@googlemail.com">hustwangce@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
If you haven't gotten a reply, I don't think it is very polite for you<br>
to post the original email to the whole mail list!<br>
<br>
2012/4/3 Emad Mohamed <<a href="mailto:emohamed@umail.iu.edu">emohamed@umail.iu.edu</a>>:<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> Hello All Corpora members,<br>
> I sent this question to Pontus Stenetorp, but got no reply. Maybe one of you<br>
> can help.<br>
><br>
> Hello Pontus,<br>
> We have started using your brat annotation tool here , and it's working<br>
> great. We do, however, have one issue with the right to left display in<br>
> Arabic. While Arabic goes from right to left, I cannot find a way<br>
> to accommodate the tags that have to go from left to right. Is there some<br>
> way to get that fixed?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> We appreciate your effort, and await your answer.<br>
><br>
> Best,<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Pontus Stenetorp <<a href="mailto:pontus@stenetorp.se">pontus@stenetorp.se</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Dear colleagues,<br>
>><br>
>> We are proud to make this first public announcement of the brat rapid<br>
>> annotation tool, a free, open-source, web-based tool for text<br>
>> annotation visualisation and editing, available from:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://brat.nlplab.org/" target="_blank">http://brat.nlplab.org/</a><br>
>><br>
>> brat is fully configurable and can support a wide variety of<br>
>> annotation tasks, including, for example:<br>
>><br>
>> * entity mention ("named entity") annotation<br>
>> * binary relation annotation<br>
>> * dependency syntactic annotation<br>
>> * structured, n-ary event annotation<br>
>><br>
>> The tool also provides annotation support features such as text and<br>
>> annotation search with detailed constraints, keyword-in-context<br>
>> concordancing, and integrated configurable checking of task-specific<br>
>> semantic constraints.<br>
>><br>
>> brat is developed as a collaborative effort between several research<br>
>> groups as an open source project (MIT license), and we warmly welcome<br>
>> contributions and participation from the community, including feature<br>
>> requests.<br>
>><br>
>> We hope this tool will prove valuable to the natural language processing<br>
>> community, and will gladly answer questions and welcome any feedback.<br>
>><br>
>> brat will be presented at the EACL 2012 system demonstration session:<br>
>><br>
>> Stenetorp et al., brat: a Web-based Tool for NLP-Assisted Text<br>
>> Annotation<br>
>><br>
>> links:<br>
>><br>
>> brat homepage: <a href="http://brat.nlplab.org/" target="_blank">http://brat.nlplab.org/</a><br>
>> brat code repository: <a href="http://github.com/nlplab/brat" target="_blank">http://github.com/nlplab/brat</a><br>
>> NaCTeM page on brat: <a href="http://www.nactem.ac.uk/brat-annotation/" target="_blank">http://www.nactem.ac.uk/brat-annotation/</a><br>
>> EACL demo session: <a href="http://eacl2012.org/system-demonstration/" target="_blank">http://eacl2012.org/system-demonstration/</a><br>
>><br>
>> the brat developers:<br>
>><br>
>> Pontus Stenetorp (Aizawa lab, University of Tokyo)<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:pontus@stenetorp.se">pontus@stenetorp.se</a>><br>
>> Goran Topić (Tsujii lab, University of Tokyo)<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:goran@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp">goran@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp</a>><br>
>> Sampo Pyysalo (NaCTeM and University of Manchester)<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:sampo.pyysalo@gmail.com">sampo.pyysalo@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> Tomoko Ohta (Tsujii lab, University of Tokyo) <<a href="mailto:okap@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp">okap@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp</a>><br>
>><br>
>> brat development is supported by:<br>
>><br>
>> Aizawa laboratory, University of Tokyo<br>
>> Tsujii laboratory, University of Tokyo<br>
>> NaCTeM and University of Manchester<br>
>><br>
>> Best regards,<br>
>><br>
>> the brat developers<br>
>><br>
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><br>
><br>
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> Emad Mohamed<br>
> aka Emad Nawfal<br>
> Computational Linguist<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font size="1">Emad Mohamed<br>aka Emad Nawfal<br>Computational Linguist<br><br></font></div><br>
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