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Named Entity Recognition

Span-based annotation for identifying entities like persons, organizations, locations, and dates in text.

Named Entity Recognition annotation interface preview

Configuration Fileconfig.yaml

yaml
# Named Entity Recognition Configuration
# Generated by Potato Annotation Showcase

port: 8000
annotation_task_name: "Named Entity Recognition"
task_dir: "."

# Data configuration
data_files:
  - "data.json"

item_properties:
  id_key: id
  text_key: text

# Output
output_annotation_dir: "annotation_output/"
export_annotation_format: "jsonl"
instance_display:
  fields:
    - key: text
      type: text
      label: "Text"

# Annotation scheme
annotation_schemes:
  - annotation_type: span
    name: entities
    description: "Highlight named entities in the text and select their type"
    labels:
      - name: PERSON
        color: "#3b82f6"
        tooltip: "Names of people (e.g., 'John Smith', 'Dr. Johnson')"
      - name: ORGANIZATION
        color: "#10b981"
        tooltip: "Companies, institutions, agencies (e.g., 'Google', 'United Nations')"
      - name: LOCATION
        color: "#f59e0b"
        tooltip: "Places, cities, countries (e.g., 'New York', 'France')"
      - name: DATE
        color: "#8b5cf6"
        tooltip: "Dates and time expressions (e.g., 'January 2024', 'next Monday')"
      - name: MISC
        color: "#6b7280"
        tooltip: "Other named entities that don't fit the above categories"

# User configuration
require_password: false

# Task assignment

Sample Datasample-data.json

json
[
  {
    "id": "named_entity_recognition_1",
    "text": "Apple announced new products in Cupertino on Tuesday."
  },
  {
    "id": "named_entity_recognition_2",
    "text": "Dr. Sandra Okoye joined the World Health Organization in Geneva."
  }
]

// ... and 3 more items

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# Create your project folder
mkdir named-entity-recognition
cd named-entity-recognition
# Copy config.yaml from above
potato start config.yaml

Details

Annotation Types

span

Domain

NLP

Use Cases

Named Entity RecognitionInformation Extraction

Tags

NERentitiesspan annotationinformation extraction

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