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.
What's Changed
New or improved features
- ⭐️ #3887 - Allow selecting a concept by browsing the KB by @reckart in #3888
- ⭐️ #1592 - Allow re-ordering of features by @reckart in #3998
- ⭐️ #3944 - Ability to use recommenders as curator by @reckart in #3949
- ⭐️ #3868 - Allow a recommender to force-create annotations by @reckart in #3897
- ⭐️ #3914 - Allow pinning label groups to the annotation sidebar by @reckart in #3915
- ⭐️ #3877 - Show a bit of context in the annotation sidebar by @reckart in #3878
- ⭐️ #3947 - Show more timing information in recommender log by @reckart in #3948
- ⭐️ #4004 - Ability to export full type system from layer detail panel by @reckart in #4005
New experimental features
Bug fixes
- 🦟 #4008 - PDF highlighting disables after double-clicking on a recommended annotation by @reckart in #4012
Other internal changes
- ⚙️ #3855 - Editor views only need a SourceDocument by @reckart in #3856
- ⚙️ #3905 - Allow sentence splitting to consider document structure by @reckart in #3906
- ⚙️ #3907 - Consider editor policy only if format does not offer policy by @reckart in #3908
- ⚙️ #3945 - Centralize handling of CURATION_USER by @reckart in #3946
- ⚙️ #3886 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #3962, #3967, #4007
- ⚙️ #3969 - Review and improve visibility calculation code by @reckart in #3970
- ⚙️ #3996 - Allow readers to access project-related information by @reckart in #3997
- ⚙️ #3969 - Review and improve visibility calculation code by @reckart in #4000
- ⚙️ #4009 - Avoid event instantiation when event is not going to be sent by @reckart in #4010
Full Changelog: inception-27.8...inception-28.0
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 27.8 to 28.0 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%3A28.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/28.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/28.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/28.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_upgrade_notes