  This paper presents the challenges in creating and managing large parallel
corpora of 12 major Indian languages (which is soon to be extended to 23
languages) as part of a major consortium project funded by the Department of
Information Technology (DIT), Govt. of India, and running parallel in 10
different universities of India. In order to efficiently manage the process of
creation and dissemination of these huge corpora, the web-based (with a reduced
stand-alone version also) annotation tool ILCIANN (Indian Languages Corpora
Initiative Annotation Tool) has been developed. It was primarily developed for
the POS annotation as well as the management of the corpus annotation by people
with differing amount of competence and at locations physically situated far
apart. In order to maintain consistency and standards in the creation of the
corpora, it was necessary that everyone works on a common platform which was
provided by this tool.
