Using Text Annotation Tool on Cyber Security News — A Review

Abstract

Cyber-attack has become one of the main concern in our everyday life and being reported throughout online news website. As thousands of news article existed, it is difficult to go through all the news which lead to a slower analyzing process. Hence, a vital text mining component known as Information Extraction (IE) is needed in order to ease the knowledge discovery process for the wide collection of the cyber security news. To make IE process better and easier, the usage of tool such as General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) can help a lot especially in creating annotated corpus. In this paper, we will introduce and reviewing several annotation tools that are freely available and also to discuss steps needed to create an annotated corpus for the cyber security text documents.