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
- ⭐️ #5660 - Preserve line-breaks in strings displayed in annotation popover by @reckart in #5661
- ⭐️ #5662 - Option to disable confirmation dialog when deleting annotation with attached annotations by @reckart in #5700
- ⭐️ #5670 - Add more keyboard shortcuts by @reckart in #5671
- ⭐️ #5687 - Jump to last edited position when opening a document by @reckart in #5688
- ⭐️ #5727 - CAS export format including XML structure by @reckart in #5730
- ⭐️ #5764 - Button to hide action bar on annotation page by @reckart in #5766
- ⚙️ #5717 - Debounce saving of preferences in Apache Annotator editor by @reckart in #5718
- ⚙️ #5742 - Avoid forwarding key events from editor plugins when in input field by @reckart in #5743
Dashboard
- ⭐️ #5617 - Ability to see activities of other users in activity overview by @reckart in #5618
- ⭐️ #5623 - Allow selecting the granularity in the activity view by @reckart in #5624
- ⭐️ #5637 - Allow viewing activity by curators on curation by @reckart in #5638
- ⭐️ #5682 - Option to summarize activity across documents by @reckart in #5683
- ⭐️ #5692 - Ability to see manager of projects in overview by @reckart in #5693
- ⭐️ #5726 - Recent activity across projects on project overview page by @reckart in #5735, #5740, #5778
- ⭐️ #5755 - Improve bulk-selection mode on project overview page by @reckart in #5757
Knowlege Base
- ⭐️ #5748 - Support searching concepts in certain KBs by ID instead of IRI by @reckart in #5750
- ⚙️ #5627 - Allow pre-resolving label and match properties to speed up main queries by @reckart in #5630
Agreement
Explorer
- ⭐️ #5646 - Ability to filter rows by non-equal or empty values by @reckart in #5647
- ⭐️ #5696 - Allow comparing against source (INITIAL_CAS) in explorer by @reckart in #5697
- ⭐️ #5701 - Sort range in explorer numerically instead of alphabetically by @reckart in #5702
Workload Management
- ⭐️ #5733 - Ability to export all annotations for given users or documents by @reckart in #5734, #5771
- ⭐️ #5736 - Display aggregate document status on matrix workload page by @reckart in #5737
Recommenders
- ⭐️ #5676 - Optionally consider link feature targets in entity linker recommender by @reckart in #5677
- ⭐️ #5712 - Support external recommenders that generate suggestions for multiple layers and features by @reckart in #5713
- ⭐️ #5724 - Optionally send XML structure to external recommender by @reckart in #5725
- ⚙️ #5703 - Allow obtaining a SuggestionSupport without a Recommender by @reckart in #5704
🧪 Assistant
- ⭐️ #5760 - Provide tools to list and read documents to agent by @reckart in #5761
- ⚙️ #5632 - Change ResponseExtractor into a AnnotationTaskCodec by @reckart in #5633
Administration
- ⭐️ #5645 - Ability to bulk-disable users by @reckart in #5707
- ⭐️ #5738 - Ability to see how long a user was logged in in total by @reckart in #5739
Miscellaneous
- ⚙️ #5397 - Resolve remaining Svelte transition issues by @reckart in #5659
- ⚙️ #5610 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #5765, #5767, #5768, #5769, #5770, #5611, #5616, #5636, #5656, #5663, #5665, #5741
- ⚙️ #5640 - Decouple annotation storage from user management by @reckart in #5641, #5642, #5653, #5655, #5681
- ⚙️ #5672 - Inline AnnotationSidebar_ImplBase.actionShowSelectedDocument by @reckart in #5673
- ⚙️ #5722 - Cleaning up by @reckart in #5723
- 💀 #5612 - Remove rests of interactive tutorial by @reckart in #5619
- 💀 #5613 - Remove legacy PDF editor by @reckart in #5620
- 💀 #5621 - Remove deprecated fact linking module by @reckart in #5622
- 💀 #5643 - Drop LAPPS module by @reckart in #5644
- 💀 #5668 - Remove unused entity ranking features by @reckart in #5669
Full Changelog: inception-38.6...inception-39.0
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 38.6 to 39.0 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%3A39.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/39.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/39.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/39.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_upgrade_notes
[8] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pkgs/container/inception