Custom NER tags panel

[mwadhwa (Manya Wadhwa)]

HI - I am creating an annotation task for NER with 10+ tags. I was wondering if there is some way of customizing the purple NER panel so I can re-order the tags and make them intuitive? Would it need a custom HTML panel or can I somewhere include new lines so I can group the tags? Thanks!

[ljvmiranda921 (Lj Miranda)]

Hi @mwadhwa, welcome to Prodigy!

If you want to re-order the tags, you can pass the desired order in the --label parameter of the ner.manual command. This should respect the order you've given it. If you have 10+ labels, you can provide a path to a file with one label per line instead of typing it one-by-one.

[ines (Ines Montani)]

To add to @ljvmiranda921's comment, if you want further control over how the labels are displayed, you could use the global_css to modify them on the screen. I posted a little example of an approach here:

Regroup and change positions of labels in image_manual tasks?

By labels, you mean the label list where you select the label to annotate? You can select the title bar containing the labels in CSS using the classes .prodigy-title-wrapper and .prodigy-title (if you look at the elements in your browser's developer console, you'll see the elements it targets). So you could definitely re-style them and move them around and provide the overrides via the global_css: https://prodi.gy/docs/custom-interfaces#js-css I just did a quick test and there's definitely som…

[mwadhwa (Manya Wadhwa)]

thanks for this! Yes, I already tried the reordering of labels but given that there are so many I was hoping to group them in some way to make it more intuitive for annotation. Thanks!