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We are pleased to announce the release of INCEpTION 0.18.0.
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 0.17.4
- ℹ️ System requirements changed: Java version 11 or higher.
- ⭐️ Added new dynamic workload management strategy
- ⭐️ Added quick project creation options on project overview page
- ⭐️ Added support for editing project name directly in project dashboard
- ⭐️ Added support for deleting layers
- ⭐️ Added support for sentence IDs in WebAnno format
- ⭐️ Added option to import pre-tokenized text (whitespace separated tokens, sentence per line)
- ⭐️ Added nicely styled error page
- ⭐️ Improved ordering in auto-complete string feature editor
- ⭐️ Improved activity information in project dashboard
- ⭐️ Improved conditions for visibility of menu items in project dashboard
- ⭐️ Improved descriptions in the recommender sidebar
- 📖 Documentation now prefers MariaDB over MySQL
- 📖 Documentation now explains how to set a MariaDB database up with proper Unicode support
- 🧪 Added experimental annotation editor for linking annotations to document-level slots
- 🧪 Added experimental ability to join a project via an invitation link
- 🦟 Fixed bug that exported typesystem from layer settings has duplicate type definitions
- 🦟 Fixed bug that deleting very large constraints may not work
- 🦟 Fixed bug that imported project may end up without any permissions
- 🦟 Fixed potential exception on login page
- 🦟 Fixed bug that annotation details still show even no annotation is selected
- 🦟 Fixed bug that info badge not appearing in feature editor after linking to a concept
If you discover problems with this release, please report them to us via our issue tracker [2].
Contributors to this release since 0.17.4: @reckart, @UWinch, @jcklie, @christophscheunemann, @wpmp, @nkolmar
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 0.17.4 to 0.18.0 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 11 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%3A0.18.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/0.18.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/0.18.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_standalone_behind_httpd