Djangology: A Light-weight Web-based Tool for Distributed Collaborative Text Annotation

Manual text annotation is a resource-consuming endeavor necessary for NLP systems when they target new tasks or domains for which there are no existing annotated corpora. Distributing the annotation work across multiple contributors is a natural solution to reduce and manage the effort required. Although there are a few publicly available tools which support distributed collaborative text annotation, most of them have complex user interfaces and require a significant amount of involvement from the annotators/contributors as well as the project developers and administrators. We present a light-weight web application for highly distributed annotation projects Djangology. The application takes advantage of the recent advances in web framework architecture that allow rapid development and deployment of web applications thus minimizing development time for customization. The application's web-based interface gives project administrators the ability to easily upload data, define projec...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Emilia Apostolova, Sean Neilan, Gary An, Noriko Tomuro, Steven L. Lytinen
• Keywords: Annotation, Annotation Projects, Education, LREC 2010, Text Annotation