We are pleased to announce the release of INCEpTION 0.17.0.
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.
Notable changes since INCEpTION 0.16.1
- 🚀 Performance optimizations for slow network connections.
- 🚀 Performance optimizations for document rendering.
- 🚀 Performance optimization for importing and deleting large projects.
- 🚀 Performance optimizations for annotation detail sidebar.
- 🚀 Performance optimizations for internal management of annotation data.
- ⭐️ Added editing of annotations in HTML mode (was read-only before).
- ⭐️ Added option to limit number of users that can access the INCEpTION instance.
- ⭐️ Added ability to edit constraint rules directly in the project settings.
- ⭐️ Added ability to define constraint rules over slot features.
- ⭐️ Improved project import on projects overview page to allow the same operations as the one in the administration section.
- 😎 Improved UI/UX is several places.
- 📖 Completely rewritten the Getting Started section in the User Guide.
- 📖 Updated several parts of the documentation.
- 🦟 Fixed bug in which Fuseki SPARQL queries sometimes failed.
- 🦟 Fixed bug in which layer selection was not correctly displayed for projects with only one enabled layer.
- 🦟 Fixed bug that occurred when enabling the PDF editor on non-PDF files.
- 🦟 Fixed access to remote API when external authentication is enabled.
- ... and additional fixes and improvements 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, @jcklie, @An-Feli, @christophscheunemann
Thanks for contributions go to: @chaitraliagashe, @wpmp, @clarus, @qpwo, @munterkalmsteiner, @bansp, @NovemberChopin, @SergioFQ, @Taaaaaserface, @JaviValera, @jiemakel, @Sibgha360, @MdeBoer95, @az79nefy
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 0.16.1 to 0.17.0 for deployment 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%3A0.17.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/0.17.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/0.17.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_standalone_behind_httpd