# YEDDA: A Lightweight Collaborative Text Span Annotation Tool

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03759 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.03759/

## Key facts

- Cited by 13 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 10 Nov 2017.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we introduce textscYedda, a lightweight but efficient and comprehensive open-source tool for text span annotation. textscYedda provides a systematic solution for text span annotation, ranging from collaborative user annotation to administrator evaluation and analysis. It overcomes the low efficiency of traditional text annotation tools by annotating entities through both command line and shortcut keys, which are configurable with custom labels. textscYedda also gives intelligent recommendations by learning the up-to-date annotated text. An administrator client is developed to evaluate annotation quality of multiple annotators and generate detailed comparison report for each annotator pair. Experiments show that the proposed system can reduce the annotation time by half compared with existing annotation tools. And the annotation time can be further compressed by 16.47% through intelligent recommendation.