pranav-s
January 8, 2021, 7:17pm
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Is there a recipe to reannotate or view documents in the web interface for NER which were originally annotated using ner.manual ? The ontology in our case changes as we annotate more documents and I would like to know if there is a way to reannotate the documents which have already been saved to the database.
ines
January 8, 2021, 11:15pm
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Yes, you can always load an existing dataset back in to re-annotate it – the easiest way is to use dataset:[name of your dataset] as the input source, instead of a file: Loaders and Input Data · Prodigy · An annotation tool for AI, Machine Learning & NLP Just make sure you save the result to a new dataset. Also see this thread:
Hi! Datasets in Prodigy are append-only by design, so you'll never lose a datapoint you collected by modifying it in place. But you can always load your collected annotations back into Prodigy by loading from an existing dataset instead of a file. See here: https://prodi.gy/docs/api-loaders#datasets Alternatively, you can also export your annotations using db-out and load them back in from a file.
Prodigy's input and output formats are the same, so you'll see the existing annotations and are ab…
pranav-s
January 13, 2021, 7:03pm
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Thank you @ines . Very helpful!