[inception-users] INCEpTION 41.0
Richard Eckart de Castilho
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
- ⭐️ #1000 - Mark required document level annotations if required features are not set by @reckart in #6062
- ⭐️ #3411 - Resize sidebars using mouse by @reckart in #3414
- ⭐️ #5746 - Document structure for HTML and TEI files by @reckart in #6034
- ⭐️ #5926 - Enforce certain XML/HTML elements to be atomically annotated by @reckart in #5938, #5971
- ⭐️ #6076 - Display token and sentence count in the open document dialog by @reckart in #6077
- ⭐️ #6091 - Document area collapses and scrolling stutters in Safari and Firefox for custom XML formats with namespaced section elements by @reckart in #6092
- ⭐️ #6106 - Keyboard-based annotation creation mode by @reckart in #6107
- ⭐️ #6108 - Relation support for the Apache Annotator HTML editor mode by @reckart in #6109
- ⭐️ #6112 - Allow sorting by tokens and sentences in open document dialog by @reckart in #6113
- 🦟 #5922 - Curation items may be shown on annotation page by @reckart in #5951
- 🦟 #5947 - Fix additional cases in bidi rendering by @reckart in #5948
- 🦟 #6110 - Position of resize grips in left and right sidebar dividers is slightly off by @reckart in #6111
- 🦟 #6114 - Annotation editor scroll position changes when opening or closing the left sidebar by @reckart in #6115
Recommender
- ⭐️ #5930 - Provide tagset description to external recommender by @reckart in #5931
- ⭐️ #5952 - Validate gazetteers during import by @reckart in #5953
Annotation explorer
Knowledge bases
- ⭐️ #6064 - Show Lucene version of KB full-text index and offer one-click upgrade by @reckart in #6066
Search
- ⭐️ #6069 - Improve SPARQL queries against RDF4J by @reckart in #6070
- ⚙️ #6060 - Schema-version marker on project search indexes for lazy upgrades by @reckart in #6061
Document repositories
Workload management and monitoring
- ⭐️ #5956 - Show when DB document state differs from displayed document state by @reckart in #5957
- ⭐️ #6044 - Option to scale progress chart by tokens contained in documents by @reckart in #6045
Project managment and administration
- ⭐️ #5972 - Support obfuscated export by @reckart in #5973, #5974, #5976
- ⭐️ #5940 - Add network menu item to admin settings by @reckart in #5941
- ⭐️ #5991 - Ability for admin to see global settings by @reckart in #6002
- ⭐️ #6087 - Keep data of annotators removed from the project accessible by @reckart in #6090
- 🦟 #6100 - Deleting a recently active project may intermittently fail with an error on MariaDB 11 by @reckart in #6101
Installation and deployment
- ⭐️ #5980 - Set taskbar icon by @reckart in #5981
- ⭐️ #5982 - Add application bundle for macOS by @reckart in #5983
- ⭐️ #5986 - Add Windows MSI by @reckart in #5987, #5990
- ⭐️ #5995 - By default listen only on localhost when starting from jpackage-ed bundles by @reckart in #5997
- ⚙️ #5984 - Use docker maven plugin buildx support for multi-platform builds by @reckart in #5985
- ⚙️ #6028 - Use JSON notation in Dockerfile by @reckart in #6029
🧪 Assistant
- ⚙️ #5978 - Split assistant module up by @reckart in #5979
- ⚙️ #6040 - Improve LLM infrastructure by @reckart in #6041
🧪 Bulk processing
Miscellaneous
- 🦟 #6102 - Outdated system requirements in documentation by @reckart in #6103
- ⚙️ #5960 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #5961, #5975, #6001, #6003, #6058, #6072, #6104, #6078
- ⚙️ #6021 - Switch from npm to bun by @reckart in #6022
- ⚙️ #6035 - Avoid sass import warnings by @reckart in #6036
- ⚙️ #6083 - Read document information from CASMetadata if possible by @reckart in #6084
- 💀 #6071 - Drop LIF module by @reckart in #6073
Full Changelog: inception-40.6...inception-41.0
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 40.6 to 41.0 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 21 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%3A41.0
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/41.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/41.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/41.0/docs/admin-guide.html#_upgrade_notes
[8] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pkgs/container/inception