WebAnno is a multi-user tool supporting different roles such as annotator, curator, and project manager. The progress and quality of annotation projects can be monitored and measuered in terms of inter-annotator agreement. Multiple annotation projects can be conducted in parallel.

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Different modes of annotation are supported, including a correction mode to review externally pre-annotated data, and an automation mode in which WebAnno learns and offers annotation suggestions.

WebAnno is a fully web-based tool with a lower entry barrier than other annotation tools. Annotators and annotation project managers do not require to download any software. A modern web-browser is sufficent. After installation on a web-server, all settings can be reached through the browser.

How to cite

If you use WebAnno in scientific work, please cite our latest publication.

Eckart de Castilho, R., Mújdricza-Maydt, É., Yimam, S.M., Hartmann, S., Gurevych, I., Frank, A. and Biemann, C. (2016): A Web-based Tool for the Integrated Annotation of Semantic and Syntactic Structures. In Proceedings of the LT4DH workshop at COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan (pdf) (bib)

For further publications about WebAnno, please refer to the publications page.

Maintainer

• Richard Eckart de Castilho, UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt

For more information on past team compositions, please refer to the info page.

For a list of contributors to the project, please refer to the CONTRIBUTORS file.

License

WebAnno is provided as open source under the Apache License v2.0.