Corpora: tools for collaborative annotation

[Christopher Bader]

Any database program, such as the open
source MySQL, should be able to do this.

CB



----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Bird" <sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
To: <corpora at hd.uib.no>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 2:34 PM
Subject: Corpora: tools for collaborative annotation


>
> I'm wondering what software exists for collaborative annotation.  By
> collaborative annotation I mean the process by which two or more people
who
> may be geographically separated simultaneously assign linguistic tags to
> the same raw material (text, audio, video, ...).  Each annotator is able
to
> view the work of the others, taking it into consideration while
annotating.
>
> For instance, a multilayer annotation containing some combination of
prosodic,
> syntactic and discourse level markup may depend on critical judgements
made
> by geographically separated specialists.  The decisions made by any one of
> them may benefit from seeing the work of the others.
>
> (Non-examples are projects having a pipeline structure, where multiple
> layers are created one at a time, and where layer n annotation doesn't
> begin until layer n-1 is complete.  Of course these are also collaborative
> to an extent, but the collaboration is not simultaneous and
bidirectional.)
>
> Please let me know of any projects or tools that may be relevant.
>
> Many thanks,
> Steven Bird
>
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