Knowtator is a general-purpose text annotation tool that is integrated with the Protégé knowledge representation system. Knowtator facilitates the manual creation of training and evaluation corpora for a variety of biomedical language processing tasks. Building on the strengths of the widely used Protégé knowledge representation system, we have developed Knowtator as a Protégé plugin that leverages Protégé's knowledge representation capabilities to specify annotation schemas. Knowtator's unique advantage over other annotation tools is the ease with which complex annotation schemas (e.g. schemas which have constrained relationships between entity types) can be defined and incorporated into use. Additionally, because annotation schemas are defined using a Protégé ontology, it is straightforward to incorporate domain knowledge into an annotation schema for semantic annotation.

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Knowtator is licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1. Please note that the 3rd party dependencies may have different licensing restrictions.

@inproceedings{1225791,
 author = {Ogren, Philip V.},
 title = {Knowtator: a prot\'{e}g\'{e} plug-in for annotated corpus construction},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology},
 year = {2006},
 pages = {273--275},
 location = {New York, New York},
 doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1225785.1225791},
 publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
 address = {Morristown, NJ, USA},
 }