StreamSide: A Fully-Customizable Open-Source Toolkit for Efficient Annotation of Meaning Representations

TL;DR

StreamSide is an open-source, customizable toolkit that facilitates efficient annotation of various meaning representations, supporting multiple schemes, formats, and languages for richer semantic annotation.

Contribution

It introduces a flexible, open-source toolkit capable of annotating diverse meaning representations with multi-format support and customization options.

Findings

Supports multiple annotation schemes including AMR and WISeR

Enables multi-rooted graphs for sentence and document-level annotation

Provides automatic format conversion and rich annotation features

Abstract

This demonstration paper presents StreamSide, an open-source toolkit for annotating multiple kinds of meaning representations. StreamSide supports frame-based annotation schemes e.g., Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) and frameless annotation schemes e.g., Widely Interpretable Semantic Representation (WISeR). Moreover, it supports both sentence-level and document-level annotation by allowing annotators to create multi-rooted graphs for input text. It can open and automatically convert between several types of input formats including plain text, Penman notation, and its own JSON format enabling richer annotation. It features reference frames for AMR predicate argument structures, and also concept-to-text alignment. StreamSide is released under the Apache 2.0 license, and is completely open-source so that it can be customized to annotate enriched meaning representations in different languages (e.g., Uniform Meaning Representations). All StreamSide resources are publicly distributed through our open source project at: https://github.com/emorynlp/StreamSide.