# Classify NER annotations

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/classify-ner-annotations/2529>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** usage, ner, textcat\
**Created:** [February 10, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/classify-ner-annotations/2529 "2020-02-10T15:32:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/classify-ner-annotations/2529/4 "2020-02-14T13:44:41Z")

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> [@kommerzienrat](#):
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> I do not really want to annotate a sentence two times, but I do not see another way for marking each span as either positive or negative. Do you have one?

I think annotating each sentence with focus on one entity at a time makes the most sense here. Yeah, you'll be seeing the same text multiple times, but you're always focusing in a different span within the sentence, with potentially very different sentiments.

An alternative solution could be to add `"options"`, make them multiple choice and create one per span + sentiment combination. So you'd have `"very friendly": positive`, `"very friendly": neutral`, ..., `"successfully did the surgery": positive`, and so on. And you could maybe use the [`"style"` property](https://prodi.gy/docs/api-interfaces#choice) on the choice options to assign different colors. But this still seems messier and means there's a lot more going on per task (and more potential for making mistakes).

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