How to modify already saved annotations?

[ines (Ines Montani)]

Hi! See my answer on this thread for details:

@ines

Datasets in Prodigy are append-only by design: you typically don't want to overwrite existing records, because that means you'd lose a datapoint you've collected. And it'd also make it too easy to erase work. Instead, you can re-annotate and correct the data, and save the results to a new dataset. If you make a mistake, you still have the previous data and can start again.

Prodigy's input and output formats are the same – so you can always export a dataset and load the data back in. For example, if you load a manually-annotated NER dataset back into ner.manual , the entities will be pre-highlighted and you can correct them.

If it's possible to automate some of the changes, that's great, too – for instance, if you removed label X from your label scheme, you can iterate over the "spans" and remove all entries that contain "label": "X" before you send them out for correction again.

If you have conflicting annotations that you want to resolve to one final "master corpus", you can also use the review recipe. It takes one or more datasets with one or more sessions and will group annotations on the same input together. So if annotator A has labelled a span and annotator B hasn't, you can see both and decide what the correct answer is (or even label something entirely different by hand).