The arXiv abstract introduces CoDA, an open-source assistant designed for collaborative codebook development. It positions the tool as a bridge between human domain experts and language models, with the goal of producing annotation guidelines for new variables in unstructured text.
According to the abstract, CoDA's core purpose is to support experts who need to annotate text but lack a ready-made coding scheme. By working alongside a language model, the assistant aims to make guideline creation more practical for domain-specific tasks.
The abstract is truncated after the opening description, so details about CoDA's interface, workflow, or evaluation are not available in the source. What is clear is the intended niche: helping humans and models jointly formalize annotation rules where none exist.