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 and bug fix release.
What's Changed
- ⭐️ #151 - Ability to see the status of background jobs in the UI by @reckart in #4126
- ⭐️ #1066 - Recommender status info by @reckart in #4043
- ⭐️ #4134 - Integrate Apache Annotator editor as the new default editor for XML/HTML files by @reckart in #4135
- ⭐️ #4132 - Update Recogito editor by @reckart in #4133
- ⭐️ #4040 - Ability to store preferences from client-side code by @reckart in #4041, #4044, #4083
- ⭐️ #4026 - Support for error tracking with Sentry by @reckart in #4042, #4059, by @torgeirl in #4136
- ⭐️ #4066 - Display document name on export failure by @reckart in #4067
- ⭐️ #4084 - Send layer description along in external recommender requests by @reckart in #4085
- ⭐️ #4128 - Display layer type in annotation detail panel header by @reckart in #4129
- 🧪 #1336 - Add dark mode by @reckart in #4082, #4131
- 🦟 #4058 - Cannot export texts containing certain characters as UIMA CAS XMI by @reckart in #4065
- 🦟 #4118 - KB link of multi-value concept feature lost on export and import by @reckart in #4119
- 🦟 #4137 - Importing annotations with NIF format, raises error on remote api endpoint by @reckart in #4138
- ⚙️ #3673 - Update dependencies by @reckart in #4029, #4047, #4070, #4109, #4111, #4130, #4143
- ⚙️ #4030 - Move AnnotatorJS code to different package by @reckart in #4031, #4037
- ⚙️ #4032 - Allow using externalized strings from backend code by @reckart in #4033, #4035
- ⚙️ #4060 - Clean up redundant code in annotation handlers by @reckart in #4061
- ⚙️ #4122 - Try catching bad selections early by @reckart in #4123
- ⚙️ #4124 - Reduce log-spam from SelectionTask by @reckart in #4125
- 📘 #4057 - Update dead link to the new file by @torgeirl in #4057
- 💀 #4034 - Remove deprecated 'iframe:cas+html' view by @reckart in #4036
New Contributors
Full Changelog: inception-28.5...inception-29.0
Download
The new version can be downloaded from our website [3] or is available as docker images from GitHub [8].
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 28.5 to 29.0 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%3A29.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/29.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/29.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/29.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_upgrade_notes
[8] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pkgs/container/inception