Re: [inception-users] Gazetteer not working for annotation [urgent]

[Richard Eckart de Castilho]

Hi Raymond,

thanks for using INCEptION.

> On 31. Mar 2026, at 19:19, Raymond Badan <raymon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am using INCEpTION with a gazetteer-based recommender for annotation.
>
> The recommender is configured and linked to my Layer 1 (Affect), but when I click “Recommend”, no suggestions appear in the annotation view. It is as if the recommender is not there at all. I have attached my gazetteer file (#AFFECTLAYER). Please help me pinpoint the issue for this to work.

I'm not sure which "Recommend" button you refer to.

> I have checked:
> - Gazetteer is uploaded
> - Feature mapping matches (emotion_type)
> - Layer is correctly assigned
> - Recommender is active
>
> Could you help identify what might be wrong?

The problem is, that your gazetteer file has some lines that do not have a tab character between the phrase and the label - just a simple space.

You can find this by opening the annotation page, opening the recommender sidebar, clicking on the "log" icon at the top of the sidebar. There
you will find a message such as:

ERROR Generic span recommender Unable to load gazeteer [#AFFECTLAYER.txt]: Unable to parse line 119 of [#AFFECTLAYER.txt] - no tab character found: [compunccyon Sorrow_Weeping]

Cheers,

-- Richard