We are pleased to announce the release of INCEpTION 22.0.
INCEpTION is an extensible web-based collaborative environment for text annotation. It integrates machine-learning-basyed annotation support, knowledge base management and corpus building into a single comprehensive platform.
This is a feature release.
Notable changes
Annotation editor
- 🚀 #2775 - Ability to work with really large tagsets for link features by @reckart in #2777, #2776, #2778
- 🚀 #2700, #2703 - Improve performance of annotation editor by @reckart in #2701, #2704
- ⭐️ #2782 - Display descriptions when hovering over link feature role label by @reckart in #2783
- ⭐️ #2356 - Select invalid annotation when trying to finish document by @reckart in #2807
- ⭐️ #2356 - Validate document before showing the finishing confirmation dialog by @reckart in #2807
- ⭐️ #2598 - Annotation statistics sidebar by @Falko1 in #2613
- 🦟 #2805 - Oversized span returned by AnnotatorJS by @reckart in #2806
- 🦟 #2709 - Creating a relation changes the active span layer by @reckart in #2725
- 🦟 #2443 - Keep Order of Search Results by @Falko1 in #2660
Project settings
- ⭐️ #2714 - Make "any" the default setting for "allowed values" by @reckart in #2723
- ⭐️ #2678 - Allow setting the default annotation editor in project settings by @reckart in #2728
- ⭐️ #2673 - Allow showing/hiding the script direction button by @reckart in #2730
- ⭐️ #2233 - Allow to set the default size as project manager by @reckart in #2734
- ⭐️ #2691 - Allow skipping the confirm dialog when finishing documents by @reckart in #2722
- ⭐️ #2676 - Hide page navigation if there is only one screen full of lines by @reckart in #2731
- ⭐️ #2671 - Allow setting an order for tags in tagsets by @reckart in #2746
- ⭐️ #2672 - Make tagset default closed by @reckart in #2724
- ⭐️ #2096 - New project export page by @reckart in #2646
Crowd-sourcing
- ⭐️ #2801 - Change label for guest account "I already have an account" by @reckart in #2808
- 🦟 #2803 - Invitation link behind reverse proxy by @reckart in #2804
- 🦟 #2760 - Using guest link accounts and real user has some strange interactions by @reckart in #2784
For system operators
- 🦟 #2747 - Depends_on in docker compose 3 not supported by @reckart in #2748
- 📘 #2735 - Update reverse proxy documentation for WebSocket support by @jcklie in #2800
- 📘 #2719 - Update nginx reverse proxy documentation by @jcklie in #2720
Other
- 🦟 #2736 - INCEpTION should work on 32bit Windows again by @reckart in #2780
- 🩹 #2630 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #2779
Full Changelog: inception-21.5...inception-22.0
If you discover problems with this release, please report them to us via our issue tracker [2].
Thanks to the INCEpTION 22.0 team: @reckart, @jcklie, @Falko1
Also thanks to all issue reporters, beta testers, feature suggesters, and users!
Download
The new version can be downloaded from our website [3].
Important upgrade notes
An in-place upgrade from INCEpTION 21.5 to 22.0 is possible.
Back up your data before the upgrade [4].
If you upgrade from a version older than 21.0, please check the update notes for INCEpTION 21.0 [7].
Publication
An overview of INCEpTION can be found in
Klie, J.-C., Bugert, M., Boullosa, B., Eckart de Castilho, R. and Gurevych, I. (2018):
The INCEpTION Platform: Machine-Assisted and Knowledge-Oriented Interactive Annotation.
In Proceedings of System Demonstrations of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
PDF and BibTeX as well as more publications on specific features are
available from our website [5].
License and System requirements
INCEpTION is provided as open source software under the Apache License version 2.
Running INCEpTION requires Java version 11 or higher.
By default, INCEpTION uses an embedded database which is sufficient for testing. However, the use of a MariaDB database is recommended.
INCEpTION works best with Chrome and Safari.
-- The INCEpTION developer team
[1] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues?q=milestone%3A22.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/22.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/22.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/releases/inception-21.0.1