MADARi: A Web Interface for Joint Arabic Morphological Annotation and Spelling Correction
This tool addresses the problem of efficient and accurate annotation for Arabic language researchers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing annotation methods with a new interface.
The authors introduced MADARi, a web interface for joint morphological annotation and spelling correction in Standard and Dialectal Arabic, which includes features like pre-computed analyses and remote management to enhance annotator productivity, as detailed in a user study.
In this paper, we introduce MADARi, a joint morphological annotation and spelling correction system for texts in Standard and Dialectal Arabic. The MADARi framework provides intuitive interfaces for annotating text and managing the annotation process of a large number of sizable documents. Morphological annotation includes indicating, for a word, in context, its baseword, clitics, part-of-speech, lemma, gloss, and dialect identification. MADARi has a suite of utilities to help with annotator productivity. For example, annotators are provided with pre-computed analyses to assist them in their task and reduce the amount of work needed to complete it. MADARi also allows annotators to query a morphological analyzer for a list of possible analyses in multiple dialects or look up previously submitted analyses. The MADARi management interface enables a lead annotator to easily manage and organize the whole annotation process remotely and concurrently. We describe the motivation, design and implementation of this interface; and we present details from a user study working with this system.