How to annotate categories manually?

Unless you have imported documents with annotations in json format, your documents will at the beginning not contain any annotations (the information you want to model to learn).

So these annotations will have to be added now by hand.

You will spend a fair amount of the effort in your project here and the software supports you doing this as quickly and effortless as possible.

  • Since a document category is a property of the complete document, these annotations happen at document level, not segment level
  • It is possible to configure project with single (exclusive) or multiple categories. It means that a document may only belongs to one category in the first case while it may belong to several categories in the second case.

To annotate a category, you have to do a mouse over the label and click on the + as below.

If you are working on a multi-categories project, you can assign several categories on the same document.

Let’s move on to the next step: