Annotation saving slow and unreliable

[Yotam Leibovici]

Hi,

I'm using INCEpTION v35.2, and annotators in my projects complain about the long time it takes the system to save feature values in annotations, and that from time to time a feature value can be reset, requiring them to fill it in again. It makes their task slower and frustrating, of course. Is this a known bug, or do you have any idea why that might happen?

Thanks

[Richard Eckart de Castilho]

Hi,

> On 10. Apr 2025, at 15:45, Yotam Leibovici <yotam.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm using INCEpTION v35.2, and annotators in my projects complain about the long time it takes the system to save feature values in annotations, and that from time to time a feature value can be reset, requiring them to fill it in again. It makes their task slower and frustrating, of course. Is this a known bug, or do you have any idea why that might happen?

In most cases, INCEpTION should not be slow. However, there are situations where it can become slow.

The most common reason for INCEpTION to become slow is when users configure the brat editor to show a large number of rows.

Are you using the brat editor?

How many rows do you display simultaneously?

Cheers,

-- Richard

[Yotam Leibovici]

I'm using the brat editor because it's the only one that supports RTL view. I also increased the number of displayed rows significantly, as the pages after the first one often appear blank in RTL mode, and users prefer to work with the entire document at once. Could this slowness also occur when there are only a few rows shown, but each row contains a large number of tokens?

ב-יום חמישי, 10 באפריל 2025 בשעה 20:36:33 UTC+3, Richard Eckart de Castilho כתב/ה:

[Richard Eckart de Castilho]

Hi,

> On 10. Apr 2025, at 20:15, Yotam Leibovici <yotam.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm using the brat editor because it's the only one that supports RTL view. I also increased the number of displayed rows significantly, as the pages after the first one often appear blank in RTL mode, and users prefer to work with the entire document at once. Could this slowness also occur when there are only a few rows shown, but each row contains a large number of tokens?

The brat visualizer gets slow when it has to work a lot.
For this reason, INCEpTION supports paging in conjunction with the brat visualizer.
I would recommend settings the number of rows to something between 10 and 25 to make sure you use the space on your screen well.
If you have long lines in the sentence-oriented mode, I would also recommend not using the sentence-based brat renderer, but rather the "brat (wrap at 120 characters" or "brat (line-oriented)" modes.

Cheers,

-- Richard

[Yotam Leibovici]

Is paging still broken in RTL mode (do pages after the first one appear blank, as has happened from time to time before)?

ב-יום חמישי, 10 באפריל 2025 בשעה 21:20:10 UTC+3, Richard Eckart de Castilho כתב/ה:

[Richard Eckart de Castilho]

Hi,

> On 11. Apr 2025, at 09:37, Yotam Leibovici <yotam.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is paging still broken in RTL mode (do pages after the first one appear blank, as has happened from time to time before)?

You wrote that you are using INCEpTION 35.2 - the fix for RTL is in 35.5.

The latest version is INCEpTION 36.0.

Cheers,

-- Richard