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# neat: named entity annotation tool
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![Screenshot](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/952378/76674885-6b7b9000-65b4-11ea-9a36-1f9179dc5d6b.png)
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### Table of contents
[1. Introduction](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat/blob/master/README.md#1-introduction)
[2. User Guide](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat/blob/master/README.md#2-user-guide)
   [2.1 Installation](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat/blob/master/README.md#21-installation)
   [2.2 Data format](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat/blob/master/README.md#22-data-format)
   [2.3 Navigation](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat/blob/master/README.md#23-navigation)
   [2.4 Saving progress](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat/blob/master/README.md#24-saving-progress)
[3. Annotation Guidelines](https://github.com/qurator-spk/neat/blob/master/README.md#3-annotation-guidelines)
### 1. Introduction
*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 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* 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*.
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
* ``0`` to mark sentence boundaries
* the second column contains the token ``text``
* outer entity spans are encoded in the third column ``NE-TAG``
* embedded entity spans are encoded in the fourth column ``NE-EMB``
##### Example (simple)
```tsv
No. TOKEN NE-TAG NE-EMB
# https://example.url
1 Donnerstag O O
2 , O O
3 1 O O
4 . O O
5 Januar O O
6 . O O
0 O O
1 Berliner B-ORG B-LOC
2 Tageblatt I-ORG O
3 . O O
0 O O
1 Nr O O
2 . O O
3 1 O O
4 . O O
0 O O
1 Seite O O
2 3 O O
```
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* 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
##### Example (full)
```tsv
No. TOKEN NE-TAG NE-EMB ID url_id left,right,top,bottom
# https://example.url/iiif/left,right,top,bottom/full/0/default.jpg
1 Donnerstag O O - 0 174,352,358,390
2 , O O - 0 174,352,358,390
3 1 O O - 0 367,392,361,381
4 . O O - 0 370,397,352,379
5 Januar O O - 0 406,518,358,386
6 . O O - 0 406,518,358,386
0
1 Berliner B-ORG B-LOC Q455014 0 816,984,358,388
2 Tageblatt I-ORG O Q455014 0 1005,1208,360,387
3 . O O - 0 1005,1208,360,387
0
1 Nr O O - 0 1237,1288,360,382
2 . O O - 0 1237,1288,360,382
3 1 O O - 0 1304,1326,361,381
4 . O O - 0 1304,1326,361,381
0
1 Seite O O - 0 1837,1926,361,392
2 3 O O - 0 1939,1967,364,385
```
#### 2.3 Navigation
*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.
##### Keyboard
| Key Combination| Action |
|:---------|:-------------------------------------------|
| Left | Move one cell left |
| Right | Move one cell right |
| Up | Move one row up |
| Down | Move one row down |
| PageDown | Move page down |
| PageUp | Move page up |
| Crtl+Up | Move entire table one row up |
| Crtl+Down| Move entire table one row down |
|----------|--------------------------------------------|
| s t | Start new sentence in current row |
| m e | Merge current row with row above |
| s p | Create copy of current row |
| d l | Delete current row |
|----------|--------------------------------------------|
| backspace| Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``O`` |
| b p | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``B-PER`` |
| b l | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``B-LOC`` |
| b o | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``B-ORG`` |
| b w | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``B-WORK`` |
| b c | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``B-CONF`` |
| b e | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``B-EVT`` |
| b t | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``B-TODO`` |
| i p | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``I-PER`` |
| i l | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``I-LOC`` |
| i o | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``I-ORG`` |
| i w | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``I-WORK`` |
| i c | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``I-CONF`` |
| i e | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``I-EVT`` |
| i t | Set NE-TAG / NE-EMB to ``I-TODO`` |
|----------|--------------------------------------------|
| enter | Edit TOKEN or ID |
| esc | Close TOKEN or ID edit field without |
| | application of changes |
|----------|--------------------------------------------|
| l a | add one display row |
| l r | remove on display row (minimum is 5) |
|----------|--------------------------------------------|
##### Mouse
* use mouse wheel to scroll up and down
* left-click `<<` and `>>` to move 15 rows up or down
* left-click `O` in the `NE-TAG` or `NE-EMB` column to open a drop-down menu and subsequently select any of the supported NE-Tags to tag a token or change an existing tag
* left-click the `NE-TAG` or `NE-EMB` column and select `O` to remove a tag
* left-click the `TOKEN` column to edit the token text
* left-click the `POSITION` and select `split` from the drop-down menu to create a copy of the current row below
* left-click the `POSITION` and select `merge` from the drop-down menu to merge the current row with the row above
* 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* 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.
### 3. Annotation Guidelines
[Annotation Guidelines](https://zenodo.org/record/5116015)