POTATO: The Portable Text Annotation Tool

Jiaxin Pei, Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, Xingyao Wang, Naitian Zhou, Apostolos Dedeloudis, Jackson Sargent, David Jurgens


Abstract
We present POTATO, the Portable text annotation tool, a free, fully open-sourced annotation system that 1) supports labeling many types of text and multimodal data; 2) offers easy-to-configure features to maximize the productivity of both deployers and annotators (convenient templates for common ML/NLP tasks, active learning, keypress shortcuts, keyword highlights, tooltips); and 3) supports a high degree of customization (editable UI, inserting pre-screening questions, attention and qualification tests). Experiments over two annotation tasks suggest that POTATO improves labeling speed through its specially-designed productivity features, especially for long documents and complex tasks. POTATO is available at https://github.com/davidjurgens/potato and will continue to be updated.
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2022.emnlp-demos.33
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Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Wanxiang Che, Ekaterina Shutova
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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327–337
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-demos.33
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-demos.33
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Jiaxin Pei, Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, Xingyao Wang, Naitian Zhou, Apostolos Dedeloudis, Jackson Sargent, and David Jurgens. 2022. POTATO: The Portable Text Annotation Tool. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 327–337, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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POTATO: The Portable Text Annotation Tool (Pei et al., EMNLP 2022)
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