1. WordFreak A Language Independent, Extensible Annotation Tool

2. Outline WordFreak Overview Motivation Architecture Usage Overview User Interface Open Aspects Future Work

3. WordFreak Overview A GUI application Developed in Java Supports –Human & Machine Tagging –Active Learning –Adjudication –Relatively Easy Extension into New Tasks

4. Motivation

5. Architecture

6. Usage Overview

7. User Interface Java + User-Centric Design = Consistency & Familiarity Plug-ins + Shared Components = Cascading Updates & Fixes

8. User Interface Example 1

9. User Interface Example 2

10. User Interface Example 3

11. Open Aspects Open Source (Mozilla Public License) Openly Extensible (with Plug-ins) Open Deployment (via Java Web Start)

12. Future Work Database IO Plug-in XML Plug-in Development Integration with Annotator/File Management System HTML Help System Multiple Undo (Almost done)