The Design and Development of a Custom Text Annotator
Moses Karani, Edward Ombui, Amos Gichamba · 2019
Researchers involved in work that entails annotation of text information are usually faced with the challenge of choosing an appropriate tool to use in their work. Such work usually involves establishment of an annotation scheme to guide the annotation exercise and the identification of a tool that matches the established scheme. The team may also be required to work with a huge team of annotators who may be geographically dispersed, and a huge dataset that needs to be annotated within a fairly short period of time. This paper seeks to demystify text annotators and to establish a simple approach for the development of a custom annotation tool based on a project specific annotation scheme. We also introduce an unconventional annotation approach that speeds up the annotation exercise without a significant loss of reliability.