DocTAG: A Customizable Annotation Tool for Ground Truth Creation

Information Retrieval (IR) is a discipline deeply rooted on evaluation that in many cases relies on annotated data as ground truth. Manual annotation is a demanding and time-consuming task, involving human intervention for topic-document assessment. To ease and possibly speed up the work of the assessors, it is desirable to have easy-to-use, collaborative and flexible annotation tools. Despite their importance, in the IR domain no open-source fully customizable annotation tool has been proposed for topic-document annotation and assessment, so far. In this demo paper, we present DocTAG, a portable and customizable annotation tool for ground-truth creation in a web-based collaborative setting.