Inter-Document Annotations in INCEpTION

[Filipe Cunha]

Hi there,

I am currently exploring the capabilities of INCEpTION for performing inter-document annotations.

So far, we have created a single document instance in INCEpTION that contains multiple textual documents to allow the creation of relationships between entities across those texts. Is there a better way to perform document-level relation annotations?

Thank you for your time and support.

Best regards,
Filipe

[Richard Eckart de Castilho]

Hi Filipe,

> On 21. Jan 2025, at 16:10, Filipe Cunha <ryz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So far, we have created a single document instance in INCEpTION that contains multiple textual documents to allow the creation of relationships between entities across those texts. Is there a better way to perform document-level relation annotations?

You could set up an open tagset. Every tag represents an entity. All entity mentions with the same tag represent the same entity.

The more sophisticated version of this is to set up a knowledge base containing definitions of all of your entities.
Then you use a concept feature to link your entity mentions to the contents of the knowledge base.

When an open tagset, your annotators can independently add new entities directly from the annotation page.
Note that tags cannot simply be renamed though, e.g. if a user made a typo.

With knowledge bases, you need to either use a pre-populated knowledge base or you need to add concepts via the knowledge base page.
You cannot add new concepts from the annotation page.
Renaming concepts is possible since they are represented in the annotated data using their URIs and not their labels.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

-- Richard