ALToolbox: A Set of Tools for Active Learning Annotation of Natural Language Texts (2022.emnlp-demos)
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Akim Tsvigun, Leonid Sanochkin, Daniil Larionov, Gleb Kuzmin, Artem Vazhentsev, Ivan Lazichny, Nikita Khromov, Danil Kireev, Aleksandr Rubashevskii, Olga Shahmatova, Dmitry V. Dylov, Igor Galitskiy, Artem Shelmanov
| Challenge: | Currently, the framework supports text classification, sequence tagging, and seq2seq tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose an open-source framework for active learning annotation in natural language processing that provides an easy-to-deploy GUI annotation tool directly in the Jupyter IDE. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces computational overhead and duration of AL iterations and increases annotated data reusability. |
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