We are pleased to announce the release of INCEpTION 23.0.
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, bug fix and security release.
Security note: This release includes fixes for a recently discovered remote-code execution exploit which might affect INCEpTION under specific conditions. For more information, please refer to this blog post: https://spring.io/blog/2022/03/31/spring-framework-rce-early-announcement
Notable changes
Annotation editors
- 🚀 #2786 - Added ability to plug in pure JavaScript annotation editors by @reckart in #2787
- ⭐️ #2798 - Added compact protocol for communication with annotation editors by @reckart in #2799
- ⭐️ #2833 - Improved annotation editor JavaScript API by @reckart in #2834, #2848
- ⭐️ #2862 - Added multi-value string feature support by @reckart in #2863, #2864, #2880
- ⭐️ #2822 - Improved and cleaned up brat editor code by @reckart in #2823
- ⭐️ #2822 - Improved and cleaned up PDF editor code by @reckart in #2847, #2852
- ⭐️ #2822 - Improved and cleaned up AnnotatorJS editor code by @reckart in #2854
Curation
- ⭐️ #2411 - Added ability to reopen documents of an annotator on the curation page by @reckart in #2877
- 🦟 #2875 - Fixed excessive loading times in curation mode by @reckart in #2894
Recommenders
- ⭐️ #2813 - Recommender calling out to an European Language Grid service by @reckart in #2814, #2886
- ⭐️ #878 - Improved suggestsions to unhide immediately if an overlapping annotation is deleted by @reckart in #2845
- 🦟 #2915 - Sentence layer should not be selectable as recommender target by @reckart in #2916
- 🦟 #2891 - Predictions are not cleared after deleting the last annotation by @reckart in #2892
Workflow
- ⭐️ #898 - Added option to allow annotators to reopen a finished document by @reckart in #2874
- 🦟 #2893 - Annotators dropdown in dynamic workload management broken by @reckart in #2895
For system operators
- 📘 #2735 - Document websocket reverse proxy config by @jcklie in #2843
- 📘 #2885 - Document java options e.g. for increasing memory limit by @OleMussmann in #2896
- 🩹 #2898 - Update DB version in Docker Compose example by @reckart in #2901
Other
- 📘 #1518 - Document where the settings.properties file lives by @reckart in #2887
- 🩹 #2781 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #2917, #2927, #2878, #2888
Full Changelog: inception-22.6...inception-23.0.1
If you discover problems with this release, please report them to us via our issue tracker [2].
Thanks to the INCEpTION 23.0 team: @reckart, @jcklie
New Contributors
- @OleMussmann made their first contribution in #2896
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 22.6 to 23.0 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%3A23.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/23.0.1/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/23.0.1/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/releases/inception-21.0.1