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CAT: Content Annotation Tool
CAT, the Content Annotation Tool (formerly known as CELCT Annotation Tool), is a general-purpose web-based text annotation tool.
The aim of the tool is to make the annotation activity as intuitive as possible, supplying, at the same time, a rich set of features. The main strengths of CAT are flexibility, usability and customizability. It also supports multi-layer annotation in order to combine the annotation of several linguistic/semantic levels. It provides a standardized XML stand-off output format to help convertibility, and it contains useful features for searching in files and for measuring inter-annotator agreement between two or more annotators.
CAT is freely available for research purposes.
If you want to access CAT, send a request to: CAT.support[AT]fbk.eu
Reference:
- Bartalesi Lenzi, V, Moretti, G, Sprugnoli, R, 2012 "CAT: the CELCT Annotation Tool". In Proceedings of LREC 2012, Istanbul. (.pdf)
Since now the tool has been employed by more than 100 users in the following projects:
- Italian-TimeBank: corpus of Italian news annotated with temporal and event information following the It-TimeML specifications;
- TERENCE: semantic annotation of stories for children;
- Excitement: textual entailment annotation;
- NewsReader: semantic annotation of news in the financial domain;
- EVENTI task at EVALITA 2014 evaluation campaign.