This text annotation tool is great and quite straightfoward to setup within Amazon Mechanical Turk. I am working on a research project where the use of a text annotation tool within the field of crowdsourcing can be used such that non-experts are able to label text from medical data.

Is the use of this software limited to only Amazon Mechanical Turk or can it be used in other crowdsourcing platforms? Of course some changes may need to be made when using the code on other platform but is this code disallowed from being used in other platforms such as figure eight?

Hi,

I have a feature request ---

Can the GUI pre-populate certain entities, if they are somehow encoded in the input text? This would support a scenario in which some entities can be pre-identified, but would still require confirmation from a human annotator.

E.g., In the example from ner.csv:

He>>said>>further>>scientific>>study>>was>>required>>and>>if>>it>>was>>found>>that>>action>>was>>needed>>it>>should>>be>>taken>>by>>the>>European>>Union>>.

Is there a way to encode in the input that "European Union" is a potential PLACE, and have that show up pre-populated in the UI? Then the annotators can confirm the annotation if it is correct, otherwise they can remove it or change it.

thanks.

When I paste the contents of annotation, config, annotate, style files in the Design Layout of MTurk, I get this error
Layout does not contain any fields that include a name attribute. Please include at least one field with the name attribute (input, select or textarea) that will appear in your results.

Hello,

Thank you so much for the tool. It seems to be exactly what I am trying to do. SageMaker's NER model is too expensive for my data size. I copy and paste the content of annotate.html in the second tab Design layout, but I feel it is no longer suitable to current Crowd HTML... I could be totally wrong. I am wondering if you can confirm your code would work in the same way 3 years ago, before I digging further. Thanks!

Ray