[neat](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat) is a simple, browser-based tool for editing and annotating text with named entities to produce labeled data for training/testing/evaluation. It can be used to add or correct named entity labels and to correct the token text or tokenization (e.g. due to OCR/segmentation errors).
*neat* is a simple, browser-based tool for editing and annotating text with named entities to produce labeled data for training/testing/evaluation. It can be used to add or correct named entity labels and to correct the token text or tokenization (e.g. due to OCR/segmentation errors).
[neat](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat) is developed at the [Berlin State Library](https://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/) for data annotation in the [SoNAR-IDH](https://sonar.fh-potsdam.de/) project and the [QURATOR](https://qurator.ai/) project.
*neat* is developed at the [Berlin State Library](https://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/) for data annotation in the [SoNAR-IDH](https://sonar.fh-potsdam.de/) project and the [QURATOR](https://qurator.ai/) project.
### 2. User Guide
#### 2.1 Installation
[neat](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat) runs locally as a pure HTML+JavaScript webpage in your web browser. No additional software needs to be installed, but JavaScript has to be enabled in the browser.
*neat* runs locally as a pure HTML+JavaScript webpage in your web browser. No additional software needs to be installed, but JavaScript has to be enabled in the browser.
Clone the repo using ``git clone https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat.git`` or download and extract the [ZIP](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat/archive/master.zip). Make sure you have ``neat.html`` and ``neat.js`` in the same directory and open ``neat.html`` in a browser. Any fairly recent browser should work, but only Chrome and Firefox are tested.
#### 2.2 Data format
The source data we use for annotation are OCR results in [PAGE-XML](https://github.com/PRImA-Research-Lab/PAGE-XML) format. We provide a [Python tool](https://github.com/qurator-spk/page2tsv) for the transformation of OCR files in [PAGE-XML](https://github.com/PRImA-Research-Lab/PAGE-XML) into the [TSV format](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat/blob/master/README.md#22-data-format) used by [neat](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat).
The source data we use for annotation are OCR results in [PAGE-XML](https://github.com/PRImA-Research-Lab/PAGE-XML) format. We provide a [Python tool](https://github.com/qurator-spk/page2tsv) for the transformation of OCR files in [PAGE-XML](https://github.com/PRImA-Research-Lab/PAGE-XML) into the [TSV format](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat/blob/master/README.md#22-data-format) used by *neat*.
The internal data format used by [neat](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat) is based on the format used in the [GermEval2014 ](https://sites.google.com/site/germeval2014ner/data) Named Entity Recognition Shared Task. Text is encoded as one token per line, with name spans in the [IOB2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%E2%80%93outside%E2%80%93beginning_(tagging)) format as tab-separated values:
The internal data format used by *neat* is based on the format used in the [GermEval2014 ](https://sites.google.com/site/germeval2014ner/data) Named Entity Recognition Shared Task. Text is encoded as one token per line, with name spans in the [IOB2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%E2%80%93outside%E2%80%93beginning_(tagging)) format as tab-separated values:
* the first column contains either
* `#` a comment to indicate the source the sentence is taken from, or
* ``>=1`` the token position within the sentence, or
@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ No. TOKEN NE-TAG NE-EMB
```
For our purposes we extend this format by adding these (optional) values:
* a fifth column for an ``ID`` for the outer ``NE-TAG`` from an authority file ([neat](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat) supports automatic linking for [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org) identifiers)
* column six for use as a variable ``url_id`` for [iiif](https://iiif.io/) Image API support ([neat](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat) supports the embedding of image snippets into its interface to assist data annotation and correction if the PAGE-XML source contains word bounding boxes)
* a fifth column for an ``ID`` for the outer ``NE-TAG`` from an authority file (*neat* supports automatic linking for [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org) identifiers)
* column six for use as a variable ``url_id`` for [iiif](https://iiif.io/) Image API support (*neat* supports the embedding of image snippets into its interface to assist data annotation and correction if the PAGE-XML source contains word bounding boxes)
* columns 7-10 are used for storing ``left,right,top,bottom`` pixel coordinates for the image snippets
[neat](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat) can be used both with a [keyboard](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat#keyboard) or a [mouse](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat#mouse), but for ergonomic reasons, we strongly recommend the use of below key combinations.
*neat* can be used both with a [keyboard](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat#keyboard) or a [mouse](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat#mouse), but for ergonomic reasons, we strongly recommend the use of below key combinations.
* left-click the `POSITION` and select `start-sentence` from the drop-down menu to mark the start of a new sentence
#### 2.4 Saving progress
[neat](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat) runs fully locally in the browser. Therefore it can not automatically save any changes you made to disk. You have to use the `Save Changes` button to do so manually from time to time.
*neat* runs fully locally in the browser. Therefore it can not automatically save any changes you made to disk. You have to use the `Save Changes` button to do so manually from time to time.
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