Overlapping relations

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Hi!

Are there any recent updates in the package allow for overlapping relations, please?

e.g. "The business sold to the customer"
Ents: business [AGENT] sold [ACT] customer [AGENT]
Relation: business ---------[AGENT_to_AGENT]---------------customer
Relation: business --[SENDER_&ACT]-- sold
Relation: sold --[ACT&_RECEIVER]--customer

Thank you!
Warm wishes

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I assume from reading previous posts that overlapping Entities are not currently supported? Is it different to overlapping Relations?

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Hi! The relations UI definitely lets you add overlapping relations and attach one token to multiple different other tokens or even to itself. You can try it out here: https://prodi.gy/demo?view_id=rel_bio

Prodigy v1.11 also supports annotating overlapping spans: https://prodi.gy/docs/span-categorization

However, there's currently no support for overlapping spans and relations, as this gets really complex and there's often a better and more efficient way to frame the task if you end up with this level of complexity. You can read more about this here: Using rel.manual with nested entities. - #2 by ines