textcat training with only one label

[ryanwesslen]

hi @ula,

Thanks for your question and welcome to the Prodigy community

Try using --textcat-multilabel instead of --textcat. This thread explains why:

textcat vs textcat_multilabel

I'm using prodigy to annotate my data using one single label "Sectoral", where I either reject or accept. Now my labels are mutually exclusive, each entry is either sectoral or not. I don't understand why I cannot use the regular textcat recipe if It's suppose to work with mutually exclusive classes. In theory this is just two mutually exclusive classes, one where I "accept" and another one when I "reject". Why do I get this error? "The 'textcat' component requires at least two labels because …

It explains why this is the case and also provides an alternative workaround near the end.

Hope this helps!