We are pleased to announce the release of INCEpTION 0.8.0.
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 0.7.3
- Support for external document repositories no longer experimental
- Added basic support for PubAnnotation as an external document repository
- Added ability to randomize search results from external document repositories
- Added external document repository search sidebar to the annotation page
- Added highlighting of external search sidebar matches in document text
- Added preview to image feature editor
- Added search field on the KB page to quickly locate KB items
- Added gazeteer support in the string matching recommender
- Added support for reading/writing annotations in the LAPPS Interchange format
- Added deletion of annotations via backspace key in forward annotation
- Added tooltips to annotation page sidebar icons
- Improved KB profiles with additional information
- Improved recommender subsystem
- Improved concept feature editor speed
- Improved candidate ranking in concept feature editor
- Improved documentation of forward annotation mode
- Improved displaying of boolean features in annotation label
- Fixed setting of project permissions for project creators importing projects
- Fixed problem exporting/importing layers as UIMA type system
- Fixed forward mode complaining about stacked annotations
- Fixed exception when exporting Orthography layer in TCF files
- Fixed problem displaying dropdown boxes
- Fixed problem creating new annotations in rare project configurations
- Fixed problem when trying to save an out-of-tagset value in a string feature
- ... and many additional under-the-hood improvements and fixes.
For a detailed list refer to [1]. If you discover problems with this release,
please report them to us via our issue tracker [2].
Thanks for contributions go to: @rgabbard, @shinyichen
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 0.7.3 to WebAnno 0.8.0 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%3A0.8.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/0.8.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/