We are pleased to announce the release of INCEpTION 0.12.0.
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 release.
Important upgrade note
If you are running INCEpTION behind a reverse proxy and have so far had a line like server.contextPath=/XXX in your settings.properties file, please replace it with server.servlet.context-path=/XXX.
Notable changes since INCEpTION 0.11.2
- Added support for WebLicht services as recommenders
- Added ability to jump to the annotation providing an image from the image sidebar
- Added ability to display a human readable title for documents from a ElasticSearch repository
- Added basic plugin system
- Added page for evaluating recommenders
- Added support for sentence-level external recommenders
- Improved appearance of the annotation action bar
- Improved action bar when the PDF annotation editor is being used
- Improved display of the learning curve in the recommendation sidebar
- Improve performance of OpenNLP POS recommender in the face of incompletely annotated sentences
- Improved scheduling of recommenders such that they try harder to become active
- Fixed bug causing closed documents to be re-opened due to bulk annotation operations
- Fixed bug causing infobox not to appear for named entities
- Fixed bug the ElasticSearch repos can only be searched with single terms
- Fixed usage of link features in document metadata annotations
- Fixed bug that recommendations are shown on the curation page
- Updated to UIMA 3
- Updated to DKPro Core 2.0.0
- Updated to Spring Boot 2 and Spring 5
- ... and a couple of additional fixes and changes under the hood
If you discover problems with this release,
please report them to us via our issue tracker [2].
Thanks to the developer team go to: @reckart, @UWinch, @Sibgha360, @jcklie, @MdeBoer95, @az79nefy
Thanks for contributions go to: @chaitraliagashe, @wpmp, @clarus, @qpwo, @munterkalmsteiner, @bansp
Also thanks to all issue reporters, beta testers, feature suggesters, and users!
Download
The new version can be downloaded from our website [3].
Important upgrade notes
An in-place upgrade from INCEpTION 0.11.2 to 0.12.0 is possible.
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 8 or higher.
By default, INCEpTION uses an embedded database which is sufficient for testing. However, the use of a MySQL database is recommended.
INCEpTION works best with Chrome and Safari.
-- The INCEpTION developer team
[1] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues?q=milestone%3A0.12.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/0.12.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/