D.: The GATE Crowdsourcing Plugin: Crowdsourcing Annotated Corpora Made Easy

Crowdsourcing is an increasingly popu-lar, collaborative approach for acquiring annotated corpora. Despite this, reuse of corpus conversion tools and user in-terfaces between projects is still problem-atic, since these are not generally made available. This demonstration will intro-duce the new, open-source GATE Crowd-sourcing plugin, which offers infrastruc-tural support for mapping documents to crowdsourcing units and back, as well as automatically generating reusable crowd-sourcing interfaces for NLP classification and selection tasks. The entire work-flow will be demonstrated on: annotating named entities; disambiguating words and named entities with respect to DBpedia URIs; annotation of opinion holders and targets; and sentiment