# Support for Japanese annotation in Prodigy

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/support-for-japanese-annotation-in-prodigy/1966>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** ner, spacy\
**Created:** [September 2, 2019, 6:48am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/support-for-japanese-annotation-in-prodigy/1966 "2019-09-02T06:48:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![amanjain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@amanjain](https://support.prodi.gy/u/amanjain)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 6:48am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/support-for-japanese-annotation-in-prodigy/1966/1 "2019-09-02T06:48:42Z")

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Can we do annotation tasks in Prodigy with custom entities.  
Please provide some documentation if it exists.

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**Author:** ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 7:55am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/support-for-japanese-annotation-in-prodigy/1966/2 "2019-09-02T07:55:11Z")

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spaCy supports basic tokenization for Japanese, so you should be able to use Prodigy to collect annotations on Japanese text. There are no pre-trained models available, though, so you'd have to start from scratch.

See here for similar threads and discussion:

> [@How is the support for Languages other than English?](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-is-the-support-for-languages-other-than-english/702):
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> Hi, First of all, really nice work! I am curious about the support for languages other than English, especially for CJK languages? I couldn’t find any clue about that from the online demo. Thanks in advance! Best, Wayne

> [@Working with languages not yet supported by Spacy](https://support.prodi.gy/t/working-with-languages-not-yet-supported-by-spacy/206):
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> I guess this is a mixed Spacy/prodigy-crossover question, but i’m looking into working with Norwegian language models, specifically for text classifcation tasks. As far as i can see support for this in Spacy is pretty sparse (briefly appared in version 1.9 i think?). What do i have to add to Spacy to make a minimally working Norwegian model for text classifcation in prodigy? I recently saw that you could import FastText vectors, that might take care of a bit of the work. (There is also the pol…

> [@how to write a model.update() function](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-write-a-model-update-function/158):
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> My team want to load and re-train some Chinese models through Prodigy, e.g. NER model and text-classification model. Since spaCy doesn’t provide any basic Chinese models, we are trying to implement these recipes. From [Here](https://support.prodi.gy/t/customizing-prodigy-for-ner-and-relationship-extraction/142/2), 'update': model.update, # update model with annotations I am still confused about the input, output and main process logic of this bound method model.update. Is there any paradigm to help me write a correct one?