ATHEN (Info. Extraction)

Annotation and Text Highlighting ENvironment (ATHEN)

This image shows the View to annotate Named Entities and in the same turn assign Coreferences, suppoted automatically generated suggestions

Workflow of Information Extraction based on a light-weight ontology.

Functionality

ATHEN is a project which origins from the project Kallimachos. Its is an environment to support an annotator in a textmining project. ATHEN offers specialized support to quickly solve the following tasks:

Named Entity Resolution
Coreference Resoution
Constituency Parsing
Part of speech tagging
Chunking
Direct Speech Annotation
Speaker and adressee hihglighting
Scene annotation
Information extraction using lightweight ontologies
Interactive creation of light-weight ontologies

However due to the underlying Apache UIMA Framework one can use ATHEN to mark any kind of annotation, defined in your own UIMA typesystem.

Technology

ATHEN is written in Java and designed as a Plug-in project using the Eclipse 4 RCP-Framework. In its core it makes use of Apache UIMA.

Code

The code is currently hosted on Gitlab, for a stable version for your platform, please contact Markus Krug