This paper presents Teamware, a generic, open-source web-based collaborative annotation framework which enables users to carry out complex corpus annotation projects, involving teams of annotators working remotely. Different roles are defined (annotator, manager, administrator), allowing access to different functionalities. Documents may be pre-processed automatically, so that human annotators can begin with text that has already been pre-annotated and thus making them more efficient. The user interface is simple to learn and aimed at non-experts. It has been evaluated through the creation of several gold standard corpora and internal projects, as well as through external evaluation in commercial and EU annotation projects. It is available as on-demand service on GateCloud.net, as well as open-source for self-installation.
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