jiesutd/YEDDA

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1071 stars · 299 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

YEDDA is a lightweight desktop GUI tool for manually annotating text spans with entity, chunk, or event labels, built with Python's tkinter. It supports efficient shortcut-key annotation, batch command annotation, intelligent label recommendation, and administrator analysis of annotation results.

Use cases

• annotate named entities in text for NER training data
• label text spans with custom entity categories using keyboard shortcuts
• create training data for sequence labeling models
• collaboratively annotate text corpora across Windows, Linux, and macOS
• review and analyze annotator productivity and results as an admin
• export annotated text to sequence format for machine learning pipelines

When to choose

• you need a free, offline desktop tool for manual text span annotation
• you want fast shortcut-driven annotation for NER or chunking datasets
• you work with multiple languages including Chinese and emoji
• you need admin analytics on annotation quality and speed

When to avoid

• you need web-based collaborative annotation with real-time multi-user sync
• you require annotation of images, audio, or other non-text media
• you want modern actively maintained tooling with recent updates
• you need integration with cloud annotation pipelines or APIs

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

nlp gui developer-tools developer-tools text-editors python windows cross-platform annotation-tool named-entity-recognition text-span-annotation tkinter human-annotation ner natural-language-processing linux macos desktop

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