08 - Manual Annotation
Nobody wants to do the manual labor of tagging. Everybody wants to build language models with annotated training data.
The good old fashioned manual labor. Annotate a sentence, paragraph or document for your task. For example: tag a word with a Part-of-Speech tag, or Dependency tag. Tag one or more words as a Named Entity. Or tag a sequence of words with a Category-tag.
Manually captured annotations (source)
Over the years, numerous of annotation tools were developed. Here is a list with almost hundred annotation tools. A lot of them have terrible inefficient user interfaces or are not actively developed.
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