TALEN: Tool for Annotation of Low-resource ENtities
Stephen D. Mayhew, Dan Roth · 2018
We present a new web-based interface, TALEN, designed for named entity annotation in low-resource settings where the annotators do not speak the language.To address this non-traditional scenario, TALEN includes such features as in-place lexicon integration, TF-IDF token statistics, Internet search, and entity propagation, all implemented so as to make this difficult task efficient and frictionless.We conduct a small user study to compare against a popular annotation tool, showing that TALEN achieves higher precision and recall against ground-truth annotations, and that users strongly prefer it over the alternative.