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The simplest might be '''IO''' - which basically isn't used at all, because it can't code that two different things are right next to each other.
* The simplest might be '''IO''' - which basically isn't used at all, because it can't code that two different things are right next to each other.
: there are actually surprisingly few cases where this really matters for NER, but why build in that limitation?
: there are actually surprisingly few cases where this really matters for NER, but why build in that limitation?




So '''IOB''' seems the default.  
 
* So '''IOB''' seems the default.  


The difference between I and B comes in part to let you annotate that there are separate adjacent things.  
The difference between I and B comes in part to let you annotate that there are separate adjacent things.  
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IOB2 seems to refer to the variant that would equivalently do that like:
* IOB2 seems to refer to the variant that would equivalently do that like:
  Los          B  LOC
  Los          B  LOC
  Angeles      I  LOC
  Angeles      I  LOC
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BWEMO is similar, with different naming:
* BWEMO is similar, with different naming:
: B beginning-of-entity
: B beginning-of-entity
: W single-token entity
: W single-token entity
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: O outide
: O outide


BWEMO+ is similar to BWEMO but the rules are expanded/relaxed because it was made for a model that doesn't have strict memory of adjacency{{verify}}
* BWEMO+ is similar to BWEMO but the rules are expanded/relaxed because it was made for a model that doesn't have strict memory of adjacency{{verify}}





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Tools

Online, open source

label studio


doccano


ML-Annotate


brat


annotator.js


Annotation Lab (a.k.a. NLP Lab)


(mostly online or self-hosted)


datagym


LightTag


Label Your Data


prodigy


LabelBox


CVAT

GUI, open source

LabelImg

MAE (Multi-document Annotation Environment)


YEDDA


ELAN


Praat


Phon

Unsorted

ipyannotations

  • text (images overall)
  • python notebook


poplar


VGG Oxford University

  • varied


Annotation data formats

IOB

This article/section is a stub — some half-sorted notes, not necessarily checked, not necessarily correct. Feel free to ignore, or tell me about it.


IOB (Inside, Outside, Beginning), a.k.a. BIO, is a format certain annotation outputs to signify sequences of adjacent tokens, such as in entity recongition.

This seems to originate of using the chunker to also tag these, and having it output what is a separate thing that is probably just a single list of things, same length as input tokens (easier to parse, separate, than trying to mush it into a single annotation along the way).


It sends

  • B the beginning of a sequence
  • I inside sequence
  • O outside a sequence (terminating an ongoing sequence, or later not inside one)

(examples often show 'I-LOC' - because you can push that into a single list of strings the same length of the token list you are annotating, and you can recover both variable-length chunks and and the annotated types from that)


There are actually a number of flavours of this idea.


  • The simplest might be IO - which basically isn't used at all, because it can't code that two different things are right next to each other.
there are actually surprisingly few cases where this really matters for NER, but why build in that limitation?


  • So IOB seems the default.

The difference between I and B comes in part to let you annotate that there are separate adjacent things. For example, doing NER tagging might output:

Los          I   LOC
Angeles      I   LOC
in           O
California   I   LOC

...which implies that Los Angeles belongs together, and the seprate in/O implies that California is a different thing. If someone removed that 'in' (and were bad at adding punctiation) you might want to annotate like:

Los          I   LOC
Angeles      I   LOC
California   B   LOC

to signify Los Angeles and California are separate things.


  • IOB2 seems to refer to the variant that would equivalently do that like:
Los          B   LOC
Angeles      I   LOC
in           O
California   B   LOC

and

Los          B   LOC
Angeles      I   LOC
California   B   LOC


There is also the addition of

  • L or E to signify Last/Ending in a compound
  • S or U to signify Single-token entity ('Unit'


So now there is

  • IOE, IOE2: delimits adjacent things by putting E on the last token of the previous
  • BIOES and BILOU where we might annotate like
Alex    S   PER
is      O
going   O
with    O
Marty   B   PER
A.      I   PER
Rick    E   PER
to      O
Los     B   LOC
Angeles E   LOC
  • 'START/END' might refer to BIOES?


  • BWEMO is similar, with different naming:
B beginning-of-entity
W single-token entity
E end-of-entity
M mid-entry
O outide
  • BWEMO+ is similar to BWEMO but the rules are expanded/relaxed because it was made for a model that doesn't have strict memory of adjacency(verify)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%E2%80%93outside%E2%80%93beginning_(tagging)

https://spacy.io/usage/linguistic-features#accessing-ner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%E2%80%93outside%E2%80%93beginning_(tagging)

https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/37824/difference-between-iob-and-iob2-format

https://web.archive.org/web/20170805150451/https://lingpipe-blog.com/2009/10/14/coding-chunkers-as-taggers-io-bio-bmewo-and-bmewo/