INCEpTION is an extensible web-based collaborative environment for text annotation. It integrates machine-learning-based annotation support, knowledge base management and corpus building into a single comprehensive platform.
This is a feature and bug fix release.
Note: This version requires Java 17 or higher!
What's Changed
New features
- ⭐️ #4139 - Reusable popover component for annotation editors by @reckart in #4146, #4152, #4254
- ⭐️ #4198 - Show layer name instead of no-label by @reckart in #4200
- ⭐️ #4223 - Covered text should show in popover by @reckart in #4224
- ⭐️ #4229 - Better project template selection by @reckart in #4234, #4284, #4301, #4319
- ⭐️ #4258 - Reset document button for annotators in dynamic assignment mode by @reckart in #4261
- ⭐️ #4272 - Option to display inline labels in RecogitoJS editor by @reckart in #4273
- ⭐️ #4274 - Add popover in RecogitoJS editor by @reckart in #4275
- ⭐️ #4279 - Ability to disable startup notice by @reckart in #4280
- ⭐️ #4282 - Capture start and end of user session in event log by @reckart in #4283
- ⭐️ #4294 - Infer paragraph boundaries when displaying plain text files in HTML-based editors by @reckart in #4295
- ⭐️ #4324 - Allow configuring UID GID etc in Kubernetes by @reckart in #4325
- ⭐️ #4335 - Promote UIMA JSON CAS 0.4.0 to non-experimental by @reckart in #4336
- ⭐️ #4340 - Allow pruning elements in XML policy by @reckart in #4341
- ⭐️ #4344 - Allow format to inject default namespace if document does not specify one by @reckart in #4345
New experimental features
Performance improvements
- 🚀 #4186 - Reduce loading time for recent activity in dashboard by @reckart in #4187
- 🚀 #4196 - Save memory by not creating empty arrays in CAS by @reckart in #4197
- 🚀 #4251 - Improve speed of yield calculation by @reckart in #4253
Bug fixes
- 🦟 #4158 - Exception when annotating something after a longer pause by @reckart in #4159
- 🦟 #4297 - Popover always showing "tag not in tagset" even if feature has no tagset at all by @reckart in #4299
- 🦟 #4298 - Recommender status says "Waiting for evaluation" for recommenders that cannot be evaluated by @reckart in #4300
- 🦟 #4302 - Files imported as HTML do not show properly in HTML-based editor by @reckart in #4303
- 🦟 #4305 - New predictions message is shown even if no new predictions were generated by @reckart in #4307
- 🦟 #4310 - Viewport tracking does not work well in RecogitoJS editor by @reckart in #4311
- 🦟 #4328 - HTML files are not rendered if they use the HTML namespace by @reckart in #4329
- 🦟 #4338 - Spurious empty highlights in RecogitoJS editor by @reckart in #4339
- 🦟 #4347 - CAS doctor fails to generate a proper report on projects not containing INITIAL_CASes by @reckart in #4348
- 🦟 #4349 - Project has date in the 70ies if no data is set in JSON by @reckart in #4350
Changes under the hood
- ⚙️ #1861 - Add viewport offsets to external recommender by @reckart in #4154
- ⚙️ #4140 - Simplify lazy detail lookup by @reckart in #4141
- ⚙️ #4148 - Switch PDF editor to compact model v2 by @reckart in #4149
- ⚙️ #4150 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #4157, #4169, #4225, #4250, #4278, #4287, #4291, #4323
- ⚙️ #4155 - Better annotation suggestion IDs by @reckart in #4156
- ⚙️ #4240 - Facilitate using DIAM serializer in isolation by @reckart in #4241
- ⚙️ #4252 - Limit number of annotations displayed in annotation sidebar to avoid crash by @reckart in #4255
- ⚙️ #4256 - Avoid saving preferences immediately on load by @reckart in #4257
- ⚙️ #4269 - Switch RecogitoJS editor to compact_v2 model by @reckart in #4270
- ⚙️ #4276 - Improve resource loading by @reckart in #4277
- ⚙️ #4304 - Log more startup messages through boot logger by @reckart in #4306
- ⚙️ #4314 - Move project API to own module by @reckart in #4315
- ⚙️ #4316 - Dissolve generic API module by @reckart in #4317
- ⚙️ #4321 - Organize packages by @reckart in #4322
- ⚙️ #4330 - Change default memory limit for INCEpTION in Dockerfile by @reckart in #4331
- ⚙️ #4351 - Always introduce wrapper element in Apache and Recogito by @reckart in #4352
Removed functionality
Full Changelog: inception-29.9...inception-30.0
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 29.9 to 30.0 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 17 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%3A30.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/29.9/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/30.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/30.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_upgrade_notes
[8] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pkgs/container/inception