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  <Title>WordFreak: An Open Tool for Linguistic Annotation</Title>
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3 Source Code
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    <Paragraph position="0"> WordFreak's source code is entirely written in Java. This has allowed us to deploy it on a number of platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Linux. Java's built-in language support and use of Unicode as the underlying representation of strings has made allowing WordFreak to annotate non-English text relatively simple. Currently we have successfully developed annotation schemes for Chinese and Arabic. Finally we have recently released the source code on SourceForge under the Mozilla Public License 1.1. This should allow WordFreak to be extended by others as well as provide a mechanism for wider contribution to this tool.</Paragraph>
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4 Future Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We are currently planning on developing an I/O plug-in interface so that WordFreak can be easily extended to support additional file formats. We also have plans to develop a viewer which would render HTML while allowing annotations to reference the underlying text.</Paragraph>
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