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NE Attestation Tool 14-06-2013

NE Attestation Tool 14-06-2013

NE Attestation Tool 14-06-2013

NE Attestation Tool 14-06-2013

Named Entity Attestation Tool overviewCurrent tagged NE

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NE Attestation Tool 14-06-2013

Named Entities Attestation Tool• Person (PERS - yellow)

• Location (LOC - blue)

• Organisation (ORG - orange)

• Not known (NOT KNOWN - grey)– Use when it is a NE, but unsure which type (e.g. PERS or LOC). – NOT miscellaneous

NE Attestation Tool 14-06-2013

How to tag a NE

• Click on a word, a menu opens. Select the TYPEe.g. Amsterdam is LOC

• Drag over a number of words for a group (standard setting is PERS)

NE Attestation Tool 14-06-2013

Keyboard shortcuts• Click/drag + shortcut key indicates TYPE

– Click/drag + l = LOC

– Click/drag + p = PERS

– Click/drag + o = ORG

– Click/drag + n = NOT KNOWN

NE Attestation Tool 14-06-2013

Some functionalities• Click on tagged NE removes attestation

• ‘Walk’ through tags with < and > Arrow keys moves attestation.

• Indicate minor scan errors with ‘s’(e.g. Botterdam instead of Rotterdam)

• Auto attest last tagged NE on whole page

• Elliptical NE (North and South America) with ‘e’-key

NE Attestation Tool 14-06-2013

More keyboard short cuts

NE Attestation Tool 14-06-2013

In doubt?

• Not sure if word(s) is/are Named Entity at all?– Use the ‘w’-key to mark the attestation as dubious

(red question mark)– Note: ‘King’ is not a NE

• Sure that the word(s) is/are a NE, but not sure which?– Use the NOT KNOWN type– Note: ‘Badis’ is a city, so LOC

NE Attestation Tool 14-06-2013

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