TL;DR
- Annotation: Span granularity is now adjustable; default feature values are configurable; Firefox zero-width annotation bug fixed.
- Search: Now highlights all matches; retains state when sidebar is closed; adds search history.
- Remote API: Bulk recommenders can now be triggered via API.
- Workload Management: Fix for documents not marked finished after all annotations complete.
- Recommenders: Experimental support for LLM-generated annotation justifications.
- Cleanups & Upgrades: Dropped legacy AnnotatorJS and plugin API; major dependency upgrades.
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
- ⭐️ #5406 - Allow annotator to adjust span granularity by @reckart in #5407
- ⭐️ #5451 - Ability to control visibility of features and tags via sidebar by @reckart in #5462
- ⭐️ #5429 - Configurable default feature values by @reckart in #5430
- ⭐️ #5454 - Improve handling of adding link slots by @reckart in #5455
- 🦟 #5373 - Creating zero-width annotations does not work on Firefox by @reckart in #5384
pull/5447
Search
- ⭐️ #5422 - Highlight all search matches instead of only the selected one by @reckart in #5423
- ⭐️ #5424 - Keep search state and highlights when search sidebar is not active by @reckart in #5425
- ⭐️ #5427 - Add search history by @reckart in #5428
Recommender
- 🧪⭐️ #5431 - Allow triggering bulk recommender via remote API by @reckart in #5442
- 🧪⭐️ #5382 - Optionally generate justifications for LLM annotation suggestions by @reckart in #5383
Miscellaneous
- 🦟 #5466 - Disabling annotation-in-progress state in recommender breaks project export by @reckart in #5467
- 📘 #5456 - Improve documentation by @reckart in #5458
- ⚙️ #5380 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #5381, #5391, #5398, #5400, #5418, #5436, #5441, #5457
- 💀 #5393 - Drop legacy AnnotatorJS editor by @reckart in #5394
- 💀 #5395 - Drop plugin API by @reckart in #5396, https://github.com/inception-project/inception/
Full Changelog: inception-36.6...inception-37.0
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 36.6 to 37.0 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%3A37.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/37.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/37.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/37.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_upgrade_notes
[8] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pkgs/container/inception