Slate - A Tool for Creating and Maintaining Annotated Corpora

Recent research trends of the last five years show that richly annotated corpora inspire novel research. These richly annotated corpora are indispensable for progressing research, but also more difficult to manage and maintain due to increasing complexity – what is needed is a way to manage the annotation project in its entirety. However, annotation project management has received little attention, with tools predominately focusing on single document annotation. Therefore, we define a list of corpus creation and management needs for annotation systems, and then introduce our multi-purpose annotation and management system Slate to address these needs through use of a case study, showing how project management is essential to creating good corpora.