Re: Human annotation tool for UIMA

Thanks for your help, everyone.  I think that I will first explore using
GATE as Julien suggests below.  However, if anyone had any native UIMA tool
for doing manual annotations, it would be much appreciated.  Thilo, would
your tool work as a temporary solution?

It seems to me that having some sort of solution here would be an important
part of offering a complete UIMA toolset.  In our organization, we are
planning on working with both existing corpora and corpora which are more
specific to the domain on which we are working.  There is also the problem
of testing our NLP solution on documents of interest to us.  So there will
be many scenarios in which it won't be sufficient to simply use standard
corpora and we will need to do some annotation ourselves.

Thanks again,
Andrew Borthwick

On 6/1/07, Julien Nioche <J.Nioche@...> wrote:
>
>  GATE (http://gate.ac.uk) is open source and allows to create annotations
> manually. The interface is tightly bound to the GATE API so porting it to
> UIMA would be a relatively costly operation. It would certainly be easier to
> write a new annotation tool from scratch. However GATE could be used in the
> meantime to annotate documents and save them as XML, which could be loaded
> by UIMA at a later stage.
>
> There is also a UIMA plugin for GATE which allows to call UIMA processes
> from GATE and vice versa; but I am not sure it works with the Apache version
> of UIMA. That could help using existing UIMA resources for pre-annotating
> documents.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Julien
>
>  Thilo Goetz wrote:
>
>  BTW, I have recently hacked UIMA's CAS Visual Debugger for a
> colleague to allow creating manual annotations.  That was a
> one-off, though, and I haven't fed it back into the main code
> base.  If people are interested in that kind of
> functionality, let me know.  We wouldn't want to compete with
> a dedicated annotation tool, though.
>
>  I would like to second Andrew Borthwick's original request for a UIMA-savvy annotation tool.
>
> Adding it to a full-featured annotator would probably be great, but having an open source option would
offer the most potential
> upside for UIMA. Alembic and its replacement Callisto are free, but not open source, so I believe MITRE
would have to add support
> for UIMA themselves.
>
> Are there any open source annotators people would recommend for integrating with UIMA?
>
> -j
>
> --
> Joe Andrieu
> SwitchBook Software
> http://www.switchbook.comjoe-WWIN1AkEjBuIuWR1G4zioA <at> public.gmane.org
> +1 (805) 705-8651
>
>
>
>
>
>