On 10/5/11 1:53 PM, Georg Fette wrote:
I would like to do manual annotations on CASs with a fixed type system. At the
moment I use for this purpose the TextMarker tool, which supports manual
annotation on CASs. The use of a software which has to be installed scare some
people in my project off, so I'm seeking for a more comfortable solution. I
would like to have something like a webpage on which you can select from a list
a CAS you want to work on and a UIMA type system you want to use. By marking
text parts and clicking on desired types in the type list, annotations should be
added to the CAS. Finally the CAS should be saved and the next document can be
worked on.
Is there any project so far that somehow resembles my needs ? If there was it
would be good if its sources were open so I can adjust it to my needs.
I am currently using the UIMA Cas Editor to annotate news articles. Well
that
is similar to your current Text Marker solution, but I also started to
extend this
with other tooling which are needed to do an annotation project in a team.
Over at OpenNLP we are working on an UIMA CAS based corpus server which can
host a corpus and annotation task queues. This we planned to combine with
the Cas Editor (I am currently working on a plugin) and a web based CAS
annotation
tool. We are also working on a plugin to integrate OpenNLP to assist a
user with annotating
a document.
We didn't started yet on the web based annotation tool but we are
looking for people
who could hep us with that.
In my experience the Cas Editor is very good to get started with an
annotation project (especially
when it is for training a statistical component) and then task specify
annotation tooling is best to get
to a high annotation speed.
The idea over at OpenNLP was to make a web based tool which displays the
CAS text document and
then make it easy to extend this with task specific views.
Jörn
