WordFreak: An Open Tool for Linguistic Annotation

WordFreak is a natural language annotation tool that has been designed to be easy to extend to new domains and tasks. Specifically, a plug-in architecture has been developed which allows components to be added to WordFreak for customized visualization, annotation specification, and automatic annotation, without re-compilation. The APIs for these plug-ins provide mechanisms to allow automatic annotators or taggers to guide future annotation to supports active learning. At present WordFreak can be used to annotate a number of different types of annotation in English, Chinese, and Arabic including: constituent parse structure and dependent annotations, and ACE named-entity and coreference annotation. The Java source code for WordFreak is distributed under the

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: NAACL
• Authors: Thomas S. Morton, Jeremy LaCivita
• Keywords: Annotation, Automatic Annotation, Language Annotation Tool, NAACL 2003, NAACL 2007