EntiTies: An interface for annotating ties between entities in text

Abstract

We describe an open source web application called EntiTies for annotating the entities throughout a text and the ties between them. Example uses of this tool include extracting character networks from novels or entity networks from legal documents. EntiTies' interface allows users to annotate a text from scratch, to process it automatically, or to process it automatically and then correct it. Forking allows multiple annotations to exist for the same text. EntiTies enables texts and annotations to be easily shared with others or kept private.