GATE Teamware 2: An open-source tool for collaborative document classification annotation (2023.eacl-demo)
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| Challenge: | GATE Teamware 2 is an open-source web-based platform for managing teams of annotators working on document classification tasks. |
| Approach: | They present GATE Teamware 2: an open-source web-based platform for managing teams of annotators working on document classification tasks. |
| Outcome: | GATE Teamware 2 is an open-source web-based platform for managing teams of annotators working on document classification tasks. |
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