BRAT (Browser-based Rapid Annotation Tool) Text Annotation Framework

A BRAT (Browser-based Rapid Annotation Tool) Text Annotation Framework is a text annotation framework that is a collaborative web-based application that has been developed for solving a variety of NLP tasks.

• AKA: BRAT Text Annotation Tool.
• Context:
  • Website: http://brat.nlplab.org/index.html
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• Example(s):
  • text and corpora annotated using brat,
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a RST Tool,
  • a WordFreak System,
  • a Text Wikification System,
  • Marky Annotation System.
• See: Text Annotation Task, Linguistic Annotation System, Annotation Task, Natural Language Processing System, Natural Language Understanding System.

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References

2014

• (BRAT, 2014) ⇒ http://brat.nlplab.org/introduction.html
  • brat is a web-based tool for text annotation; that is, for adding notes to existing text documents.

     brat is designed in particular for structured annotation, where the notes are not freeform text but have a fixed form that can be automatically processed and interpreted by a computer.

2012

• (Stenetorp et al., 2012) ⇒ Pontus Stenetorp, Sampo Pyysalo, Goran Topić, Tomoko Ohta, Sophia Ananiadou, and Jun'ichi Tsujii. (2012). “BRAT: A Web-based Tool for NLP-assisted Text Annotation.” In: Proceedings of the Demonstrations at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • QUOTE: We introduce the brat rapid annotation tool (BRAT), an intuitive web-based tool for text annotation supported by Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology. BRAT has been developed for rich structured annotation for a variety of NLP tasks and aims to support manual curation efforts and increase annotator productivity using NLP techniques.

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