annotating entities with overlapping spans and their relations

[koaning (Vincent D Warmerdam)]

Also, I found this earlier thread on the forum that might be relevant:

Using rel.manual with nested entities.

Hello, I'm annotating semantic relations on the NER result created by spans.manual. But when I run the rel.manual recipe, the nested entities will be overlapped by the maximum span. Below is an example. [ner] [re] As you can see, “ranking blog posts” is labeled as “Task” while “blog posts” is labeled as “Material”. But in the relations UI, just “ranking blog posts” is shown as an entity, which prevents me from annotate the relation between “blog posts” and “relevance”. I have read some dis…