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I would like to label character data with BIO tags as part of an active learning process on unlabelled data. I am assuming there are open source GUI tools available which I can use to make this easier - i.e. present the string to be labeled and some way of tagging characters from a predefined set of tags (and probably allow new tags to be added).

I have not been able to find anything though - ideally cross-platform (Linux and macOS at a minimum). It could be a cloud service or AWS product but I'd prefer something which is locally installed.

Does anyone know of such a thing? Even something as simple as search term would help.

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Prodigy is a tool for data annotation, I think it shines in NLP tasks.

I've also heard about Amazon mechanical turk, I know it can be used for annotation, but it's more general purpose.

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  • $\begingroup$ Prodigy looks nice - the examples are for annotation of words, do you know if it works for characters as well? I assume so but it's not clear from the first glance $\endgroup$
    – David Waterworth
    Jul 31, 2020 at 8:49
  • $\begingroup$ I don't really know, but it doesn't look like it prodi.gy/docs/api-interfaces $\endgroup$
    – David Masip
    Jul 31, 2020 at 8:54
  • $\begingroup$ It looks like it can, the live demo includes a "named entity (character based)" example. It's in Chinese (I guess) but you can apply a tag to 1 or more characters unlike the "named entity" mode which always extends the selection to include full words. $\endgroup$
    – David Waterworth
    Jul 31, 2020 at 9:05
  • $\begingroup$ great, explosion is building amazing software, I hope you can make use of it $\endgroup$
    – David Masip
    Jul 31, 2020 at 9:16
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Another solution, without however the active learning support that prodigy offers, is doccano. It's open-source (free), easy to install and supports various applications, apart from NER (BIO tagging), also classification and translation.

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