Same words of a article tagged multiple times.

[ryanwesslen]

hi @arda!

Thanks for your question!

@arda

I have a scenario like above image. Is there way I can tag the first entity '1.' before the first word("1.Germany") and '2.' before the second one in the displacy output.

Are you asking on how to do this for displaCy or in Prodigy? This forum is for Prodigy; however, you mentioned displaCy. I want to make sure I'm thinking of the right one .

If it's displaCy, could you write a post-processing script with the counts and appends the count to the entity label? For entities I think displaCy will automatically render that label so adding the "1. ", "2. " for each appearance should work.

Alternatively, if your question is for Prodigy -- I suspect you may mean creating labels-on-the-fly (e.g., start with certain entity labels and then modify them like adding counts)?

Unfortunately if so, Prodigy wasn't designed for dynamic label sets (within the same session). Here's a great post on the Prodigy's "one-label-set-per-session" philosophy:

Custom ner.manual with different label sets

No, by design, Prodigy expects you to define one label set per annotation session. The label scheme is one of the most important parts of an NLP application and model, so allowing too much arbitrary variance during annotation can easily lead to many other problems down the line. Similarly, changing the annotation objective completely on a per task-basis really goes against Prodigy’s UX philosophy and I can’t think of many cases where this would be beneficial compared to an approach that uses mu…

Let me know if either of these answer your question.