jkkummerfeld/slate
A Super-Lightweight Annotation Tool for Experts: Label text in a terminal with just Python
This tool helps researchers, linguists, or data scientists efficiently label text documents for various linguistic analysis tasks. You feed it plain text files, and it allows you to highlight and categorize parts of the text (like words, phrases, or entire lines) right in your terminal. The output is a separate file containing your structured annotations, ready for further analysis or model training.
112 stars.
Use this if you need a fast, straightforward, and highly configurable tool to manually annotate text data for tasks like part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, or sentiment analysis, especially in environments where a graphical interface isn't available.
Not ideal if you require a web-based interface, comprehensive project management features for large annotation teams, or extensive built-in tools for non-English or highly complex text types.
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