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 bugfix and minor feature release.
NOTE: Docker images are now available from GitHub instead of DockerHub. The image name is ghcr.io/inception-project/inception.
What's Changed
- 🦟 #3934 - Cannot merge link feature with same target on curation page by @reckart in #3942
- 🦟 #3951 - Lots of errors and warnings from logging system during startup by @reckart in #3952
- ⭐️ #3940 - Merge label into eligible existing annotation even when stacking is enabled by @reckart in #3950
- 🚀 #3937 - Improve annotation suggestion lookup and rendering speed by @reckart in #3938
- 📘 #3935 - Documentation lists wrong property to re-enable legacy UIMA JSON format by @reckart in #3936
- ⚙️ #3953 - Switch core footer items to auto-configuration by @reckart in #3954
- ⚙️ #3932 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #3933, #3955, #3943
Full Changelog: inception-27.4...inception-27.5
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
Please check the upgrade notes [7]. If you upgrade from an older version, check upgrade and release notes of intermediate releases as well.
An in-place upgrade from INCEpTION 27.4 to 27.5 is possible. You can usually also perform an in-place upgrade from an older version, but you should make sure that each of the intermediate releases allow an in-place upgrade to the next higher release.
Back up your data before the upgrade [4].
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%3A27.5
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/27.5/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/27.5/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/27.5/docs/admin-guide.html#_upgrade_notes