UD annotatrix/UD annotatrix at GSoC 2017
Contents
Commitment
The contributions were made to [1] ...
The idea
The aim of this project was to create a ...
Main work on the project
Visualisation
Primarily, the tool was using brat's JavaScript library for visualisation. As a part of this project, I have rewritten the visualisation part using the Cytoscape library. Cytoscape is a JS graph library primarily developed for biologists, but avaliable to use for different purposes. This was made to add functionality which brat's visualisation library could not provide, namely, easier implementation of editing functionality and alignment (RTL, top to bottom) settings.
The source code for visualisation support is mostly located in ./standalone/lib/visualiser.js.
Editing functionality
Currently, the interface allows to:
- Draw depencencies
- Label dependencies
The source code for visualisation support is mostly located in ./standalone/lib/gui.js.
Server version
There is also a ...
The product
The web-interface is currently available on GitHub pages: [2]. The basic manual to the interface is provided on the help page.
The product has some functionality not present in other tools:
- It supports multiword tokens visualisation
- It supports RTL sentences
The project's architecture and components
Dependencies
All the JS dependencies needed for the standalone version are included in the package. These are:
- jQuery
- Cytoscape
- head.js
The server version is written on Python 3, Flask.
The project's package consists of sever and standalone sub-directories.
Standalone
The standalone sub-directory contains the version of the product which can function without the server package. This directory contains the dependencies (listed above, located in directory ./ext) and the main native code of the project. The native code consists of:
- annotator.js
Server
The server directory contains additional support ...
Usability testing
To evaluate the usability of the interface, ...
To be done
All the existing bugs and plans are listed on the issue page of the main repository. The main directions of the further development could be:
- Improving the server version. Currently the only thing server version allows to do is saving user corpora on server. Other options could be:
- The ability to create user accounts and have "projects" with a number of uploaded corpora
- Editing history managing
- Improving the GUI functionality
- More on format conversion
- SD parse
- Work on style
- Improving style of the website
- Adding user-selected style settings