Counting Events and Participants in News

# Counting Events and Participants in News
# Based on Postma et al., SemEval 2018
# Paper: https://aclanthology.org/S18-1009/
# Dataset: http://www.newsreader-project.eu/results/data/wikinews/
#
# This task asks annotators to count the number of distinct events or
# incidents described in a news article and provide a brief description
# of each event.
#
# Annotators enter a number for the event count and provide a textual
# description summarizing the distinct events found.

annotation_task_name: "Counting Events and Participants in News"
task_dir: "."

data_files:
  - sample-data.json

item_properties:
  id_key: "id"
  text_key: "text"

output_annotation_dir: "annotation_output/"
output_annotation_format: "json"

port: 8000
server_name: localhost

annotation_schemes:
  - annotation_type: number
    name: event_count
    description: "How many distinct events or incidents are described in this text?"

  - annotation_type: text
    name: event_description
    description: "Briefly describe each distinct event mentioned in the text."

annotation_instructions: |
  You will be shown a news article along with its event type category.
  Your task is to:
  1. Count the number of distinct events or incidents described in the text.
  2. Provide a brief description of each event identified.
  Note: Related follow-up actions count as separate events if they are distinct incidents.

html_layout: |
  <div style="padding: 15px; max-width: 800px; margin: auto;">
    <div style="background: #fefce8; border: 1px solid #fde68a; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;">
      <strong style="color: #a16207;">Event Type:</strong>
      <span style="font-size: 15px;">{{event_type}}</span>
    </div>
    <div style="background: #f0f9ff; border: 1px solid #bae6fd; border-radius: 8px; padding: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px;">
      <strong style="color: #0369a1;">News Article:</strong>
      <p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 8px 0 0 0;">{{text}}</p>
    </div>
  </div>

allow_all_users: true
instances_per_annotator: 50
annotation_per_instance: 2
allow_skip: true
skip_reason_required: false