A Collaborative Web Tool for Linguistic Annotation
The web-based Boğaziçi University Annotation Tool (BoAT) supports grammar annotation especially suitable for morphologically rich languages (MRLs). It is useful for creating treebanks and conforms to Universal Dependencies (UD) framework.
A user can upload and annotate a treebank by providing values for UD CoNLL-U tags (ID, FORM, LEMMA, UPOS, XPOS, FEATS, HEAD, DEPREL, DEPS, MISC). Furthermore, lemmas can be split and tagged, which is useful for MRLs like Turkish.
This tool also provides support for sharing experiences among annotators with a rich search feature. It also supports the computation of inter-annotator agreement scores.
This tool easily can be built with the following instructions:
Prerequisite:
Make sure that Docker is installed and running on your system.
See docs.docker.com/get-docker for installation instructions for your system.
- Obtain the code using one of the following methods:
- Download from the URL github.com/BOUN-TABILab-TULAP/Web-Annotation-Tool/archive/refs/heads/main.zip and unzip
- Use Git by
git clone https://github.com/BOUN-TABILab-TULAP/Web-Annotation-Tool.git
- Go to the newly created directory (if using zip the directory should be 'Web-Annotation-Tool-main'. If using Git, the directory should be 'Web-Annotation-Tool').
- Build the tool with the command
docker compose up --build -d - Open localhost:8000 on your browser to start the web annotation tool.