Can't save annotations - problem with thinc?

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Hi!

I am trying to annotate to train a text classifier with textcat.teach. I am able to load in the data and start annotating. But as soon as I want to save my annotations it gives me the error (in the gui) that it can’t save them and that I have to check if the database is connected correctly.

The error message I get in the terminal is the following though:

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It seems like something is not working with the model in the background. Has anyone seen this before?

I created a new conda environment and only installed prodigy with its dependencies there. I tried python 3.6 and 3.7 and in both it doesn’t work.

Thanks for your help!

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I’m having this problem too. Tried it with our own dataset as well as with this sample dataset.

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@Noe @alexkearns That’s definitely strange :thinking: Could you run pip list and check which versions of Prodigy, spaCy and Thinc you’re running? (We just released a new version of Thinc yesterday and I wonder if this is some side-effect of this.)

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I am running the following versions:

  • prodigy: 1.8.3
  • spaCy: 2.1.4
  • thinc: 7.0.5
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Thanks, pretty sure this is the problem then! So sorry about that – the update was actually supposed to fix bugs in the text classifier and make it more robust :sob: Currently working on a fix and test and will push Thinc v7.0.6 asap!

In the meantime, downgrading Thinc should do the trick: pip install thinc==7.0.4.

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With thinc==7.0.4 it works. Thanks a lot for your help!!

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Works for me too with the temporary fix. Thanks for the quick reply :slight_smile:

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You should now also be able to run pip install -U thinc to use the very latest version that resolves the problem :slightly_smiling_face: