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.
What's Changed
Annotation
- ⭐️ #5237 - Allow tuning PDF import parameters via settings by @reckart in #5238, #5363
- ⭐️ #5256 - Make search case-insensitive by default by @reckart in #5257
- ⭐️ #5265 - Extract paragraph structure from PDF files by @reckart in #5266
- ⭐️ #5297 - Visual spacing in brat between directly adjacent tokens by @reckart in #5298, #5312
- ⭐️ #5350 - Interpret plain text documents as Markdown when displaying in HTML-based editor by @reckart in #5353, #5356, #5358, #5364
- ⭐️ #5377 - Abbreviate long tag descriptions in popover by @reckart in #5378
- 🦟 #5346 - Link-to context action not available for coreference layers by @reckart in #5347
- 🧪⭐️ #1778 - Make tokenization editable by @reckart in #5374
Curation
🧪 Assistant
- 🧪⭐️ #5233 - Support speech synthesis for assistant by @reckart in #5234
- 🧪⭐️ #5241 - Improve assistant attribution functionality by @reckart in #5242
- 🧪⭐️ #5245 - Support overlapping and merging chunks by @reckart in #5246
- 🧪⭐️ #5247 - Allow copying assistant messages by @reckart in #5248
- 🧪⭐️ #5306 - Add context menu item to annotation to check it using assistant by @reckart in #5307
- 🧪⭐️ #5314 - Option for the assistant to check annotations by @reckart in #5315
Recommenders
- ⭐️ #5317 - Display correction suggestions by @reckart in #5324
- ⚙️ #5318 - Ability to update recommenders incrementally by @reckart in #5323
- 🧪⭐️ #5230 - Make LLM mention extraction more robust by @reckart in #5231, #5273
- 🧪⭐️ #5283 - Improve usability of interactive recommender sidebar by @reckart in #5284, #5286, #5293, #5313
- 🧪⭐️ #5375 - Enforce use of tagset by LLM recommender by @reckart in #5376
Knowledge bases
- ⭐️ #5325 - Simpler way of adding pre-defined knowledge bases by @reckart in #5326, #5335, #5366, #5372
Project Management
- ⭐️ #5321 - Add comment feature initializer by @reckart in #5322
- ⭐️ #5368 - Promote HTML format out of experimental status by @reckart in #5369
- 🦟 #3149 - Project creators cannot import projects through remote API by @reckart in #5336
Agreement
- ⭐️ #5333 - Export diff data in JSON format to facilitate external processing by @reckart in #5334
- ⭐️ #5339 - Export diff data in CSV format to facilitate external processing by @reckart in #5340, #5355
- 🦟 #5348 - Krippendorff Alpha Unitizing does not filter out self-overlapping annotations by @reckart in #5349, #5352
Other
- ⭐️ #5303 - Improve background task monitor by @reckart in #5304
- 🦟 #5344 - Tray icon should not disappear when starting from terminal by @reckart in #5345
- ⚙️ #4079 - Use UTF-8 for strings files by @reckart in #5367
- ⚙️ #5249 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #5250, #5255, #5281, #5290, #5360, #5362
- ⚙️ #5328 - Stop enabling all CAS doctor checks on beta and SNAPSHOT versions by @reckart in #5329
- 💀 #5370 - Turn off legacy PDF editor by default and remove legacy PDF format from documentation by @reckart in #5371
Full Changelog: inception-35.5...inception-36.0
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 35.5 to 36.0 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%3A36.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/36.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/36.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/36.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_upgrade_notes
[8] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pkgs/container/inception