Questions on Multi-User Sessions on Prodigy

[ines (Ines Montani)]

Thanks! (Btw, just to make sure you saw it: The first v1.7.0 release included a small issue with the instant submit and we released a fix in v1.7.1 shortly after )

@ameliatqy

Is there anyway to define the number of feed_overlap? I see from your manual that each annotation can only be annotated one or by everyone. But let’s say, I just want it annotated three times. How would I go about that?

Not yet, but we're working on that! This is also a feature we want to have in Prodigy Scale. We're also currently investigating an issue that seems to occur with feed overlap set to false (see here).

@ameliatqy

Is there a way to include the name of the session in the JSON in the example database instead of having it just associated with the dataset?

Not at the moment, but I agree that this should be at least an available option. In the meantime, you could add this yourself via the REST API. I've outlined a solution here:

multi user session 1.7,0 accessing session inside update function

I’m loading and writing data to a custom database and inside the update function I want to access the current user session e.g. For http://localhost:8080?session=kabir I want to add { "annotator": "kabir" } to each example passed to the update callback. Is there a way to do this easily? Using get_db().sessions only returns the default date session (2019-02-21_04-30-03)

@ameliatqy

Is there any way to programmatically retrieve the name of the session while the Prodigy interface is live?

The session ID is passed to Prodigy when requesting a new batch and when the answers are sent back via the REST API – but it's not easily available in the stream you create in your recipe at the moment. I'll need to think about this some more and come up with a way to make this possible without breaking backwards compatibility or introducing too many arbitrary recipe hooks and callbacks.