[Corpora-List] Annotation Tool for German corpora/NE recognition task

[Michael Sonntag]

Hi to everybody,

thx for the very quick answers to my question concerning annotation tools. I 
will get into the tools you suggested and hopefully get on with my work.
Thx a lot and cheers
Mike Sonntag


>From: <Frank.Schilder at thomson.com>
>To: <sonntag_michael at hotmail.com>, <CORPORA at UIB.NO>
>Subject: RE: [Corpora-List] Annotation Tool for German corpora/NE 
>recognition task
>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:35:39 -0500
>
>Hi,
>
> >
> > What I am really missing is:
> > - a good tool to annotate some documents quickly, i.e. with
> > information about : toponym, first and surname, and other
> > NE´s. This, to get an idea
> > (prec.+recall) about the quality of my models.
>
>A couple of free annotation tools:
>http://wordfreak.sourceforge.net/
>http://callisto.mitre.org/
>And Gate which can be used as annotation tool, too:
>(see http://gate.ac.uk/sale/am/annotationmanual.pdf)
>
>
> > - still better: an annotated corpus. Is there any out there?
> >
>
>I don't think there is a standard corpus that is used. Perhaps a good 
>starting place would be to look at the Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on 
>Geographic information retrieval, in particular 
>http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1096985.1097001
>
>Frank Schilder