- Highlight the span of text that you want to annotate. Make sure
that you do NOT accidently include any spaces at the beginning or end
of the span of text you are annotating.
EXAMPLE: "China" in the
sentence,
"China said on Tuesday a U.S. State Department
report that accused Beijing of suppressing religious freedom was full
of lies and urged Washington not to hold double standard in the war on
terrorism."
- In the frame that pops up, go to the scroll list at the very top
and select an annotation type. In our example, we want to select
'agent'. As a result, the frame
should look like this:
- To make certain that the annotation type is properly selected, you
should actually click on the highlighted word in the text rather than
just hitting the return key on your keyboard.
- If you select an annotation type that's different
from the first one listed, double check that the desired label and only
the desired label appears over the text span. Sometimes the software
responds so quickly that it will apply a label for the first-listed
annotation type before you have a chance to select the one you really
want. If that happens, remove the undesired extra label later.
- Start filling in the attributes for the annotation frame
you're working on. This may involve selecting from a
list (in the agent frame, the agent-uncertain field is a drop-down
list)
or typing in information (in the agent frame, you need to type in source
or target ids)
J. Ruppenhofer
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