INCEpTION 34.0

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 and bug fix release.

What's Changed

Annotation

• ⭐️ #4949 - Showing the start and end points of relations in left side bar by @reckart in #5045
• ⭐️ #5068 - Show annotation sidebar by default by @reckart in #5069
• 🦟 #5050 - Tags on the second level of conditional features cannot be selected by @reckart in #5051
• 🦟 #5052 - No lazy details when viewing annotation suggestions for another user by @reckart in #5053
• ⚙️ #5066 - Increase default number of rows for brat editors by @reckart in #5067
• 🧪⭐️ #5011 - Support HTML with media in ZIP file by @reckart in #5012
• 🧪⭐️ #5013 - Ability to style HTML documents to be like chats by @reckart in #5014

Curation

• ⭐️ #4843 - Promote sidebar curation mode to proper curation page by @reckart in #4924
• ⭐️ #4956 - Ability to configure treatment of links features when merging or calculating agreement on a per-feature basis by @reckart in #4957
• ⭐️ #5009 - Better handling of stacked annotations with link features in curation by @reckart in #5010, #5042

Recommenders

• ⭐️ #5003 - Allow exporting models from the OpenNLP recommenders by @reckart in #5004
• 🦟 #5061 - Multiple synchronous recommenders only the last one wins by @reckart in #5062
• 🧪⭐️ #4963 - Support for ChatGPT by @reckart in #4967
• 🧪⭐️ #4995 - Ability to select states of documents to include in bulk recommender processing by @reckart in #4996
• 🧪⭐️ #5033 - Ability to configure recommenders interactively on the annotation page by @reckart in #5034
• 🧪🦟 #5031 - ChatGPT recommender fails because format is not a supported parameter by @reckart in #5032

Knowledge base

• ⭐️ #5056 - Ability to configure additional languages for knowledge bases by @reckart in #5060

For admins

• ⭐️ #5027 - Add more CSP configurations by @reckart in #5028
• 🧪⭐️ #4915 - Support for MySQL 8 by @reckart in #4917
• 🧪⭐️ #4916 - Support for MS SQL Server by @reckart in #4918, #4980
• 🧪⭐️ #4051 - Postgres support by @reckart in #4914
• ⚙️ #3407 - Remove old database migrations that seem to get always executed by @reckart in #4913

Other

• ⭐️ #5064 - Project template for PHI annotation by @reckart in #5065
• ⭐️ #4936 - Option to export project via remote API without any secondary format by @reckart in #4937
• 📘 #5071 - Better document which layers are supported by which formats by @reckart in #5072
• 🦟 #4975 - Cancelling background jobs no longer works by @reckart in #4976
• ⚙️ #5047 - Clean up layer detail UI a bit by @reckart in #5048
• ⚙️ #3611 - Upgrade to Spring 6, Boot 3, Wicket 10, etc. by @reckart in #3612, #4971
• ⚙️ #4877 - Introduce marker interface for preference values by @reckart in #4878
• ⚙️ #4882 - Upgrade to Lucene 9 by @reckart in #4883
• ⚙️ #4904 - Upgrade to RDF4J 5.x by @reckart in #4905
• ⚙️ #4909 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #4970, #4910, #4973, #4974, #4998, #5054, #5059
• ⚙️ #4977 - Clean up knowledge base UI code by @reckart in #5049
• ⚙️ #5043 - Ability to specify token breaking zones when calling tokenizer by @reckart in #5044, #5074

Full Changelog: inception-33.7...inception-34.0

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 33.7 to 34.0 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%3A34.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/34.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/34.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/34.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_upgrade_notes
[8] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pkgs/container/inception