The aim of “PAL, a tool for Pre-annotation and Active Learning” is to provide a ready-made package that can be used to simplify annotation and to reduce the amount of annotated data required to train a machine learning classifier. The package provides support for two techniques that have been shown to be successful in previous studies, namely active learning and pre-annotation.

See the readme.pdf file for information on how to configure and run the package, as well as on how to install the packages on which PAL depends.

More information on the background can be found here: https://jlcl.org/content/2-allissues/4-Heft1-2016/jlcl-2016-1-5SkeppstedtEtAl.pdf

Here is a demo, in which visualisations for test runs for PAL are shown: https://vimeo.com/329849976