ETA is a web-based text annotation tool that is easy to use even for those who are not adept in computers. It allows simple text annotation involving a single feature with one or more than one value. Three types of outputs are supported: raw annotation, summary and html.

Download the zip file from this page and unzip it. For uninstallation, simply delete the relevant folder.

• You need two files:
  1. Text/corpus (text file)
  2. Annotation (tab-separated text file)
     • To start a completely new annotation, you can use annotation_template.txt with necessary customization. You need to change the FILE NAME, FEATURE_NAME, and the number and name(s) of the VALUE(s) in accordance with your task.
     • Alternatively, you can also use a file exported from a more sophisticated tool. In fact, annotation_template.txt adopts the format of UAM Corpus Tool.

1. Open Easy Text Annotator.html.
2. Drag and drop the two files above onto the main window.
3. Select the range you wish to annotate. Then, click on the "+" button at the bottom right corner.

Note As the number of annotation increases, the process may take longer to

• load the text/corpus file;
• display the annotation window;
• add/delete/modify an annotation; and
• generate a summary file.

Nomoto, Hiroki, Kaoru Kayukawa & Yuta Takayasu. 2022. ETA: Easy Text Annotator. GitHub repository. https://github.com/matbahasa/ETA

@misc{NomotoEtAlETA,
  author = {Nomoto, Hiroki and Kayukawa, Kaoru and Takayasu, Yuta},
  title = {ETA: Easy Text Annotator},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/matbahasa/ETA}}
}

The development of ETA was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP20H01255 (A cross-linguistic study of pronoun substitutes and address terms; PI: Sunisa Wittayapanyanon).