Introduction

SALTO is a graphical tool that supports manual annotation of text corpora and annotation management. It has been developed and used by the SALSA project for semantic annotation of corpora in the frame semantics paradigm ([3]). More precisely, the tool can be used to add a second (typically semantic) layer of annotation to corpora that are already syntactically analyzed (through manual annotation or automatically). Main features are:

• Query-based creation of subcorpora for annotation.
• Distribution of corpora to different annotators.
• Definition of Items and Classes/Tags to be annotated.
• Comfortable annotation with visual editor and mouse-menues.
• Semi-automatic merging and adjudication of parallel annotations in same editor.