Geoann is an annotation tool for geocoding location names in texts. We use Brat (a web-based tool for NLP-assisted text annotation) for visualizing the annotated texts. Geoann allows the annotator to retrieve all the required geo-information needed without leaving the annotation panel, i.e., it facilitates the retrieval and search of location names using Google Maps API. The tool then allows users to annotate location names by drawing bounding boxes of their spatial extents. Then, it saves the annotations in the same file-based stand-off format of each tweet.
This work is licensed under BSD-3-Clause and CreativesForGood licenses. A copy of the first license can be found in this repository. The other license can be found over this link C4G License.
