{"id":121,"date":"2022-05-05T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T11:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/?p=121"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:34:10","slug":"how-to-annotate-entities-manually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/how-to-annotate-entities-manually\/","title":{"rendered":"How to annotate entities manually?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So these annotations will have to be added now by hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can chose to label text in&nbsp;the <em>Segments <\/em>view&nbsp;or in&nbsp;the <em>Documents <\/em>view. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click on the <strong>label name <\/strong>to select it in the right panel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"934\" height=\"807\" src=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-179.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5115\" style=\"width:647px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-179.png 934w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-179-300x259.png 300w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-179-768x664.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Highlight <\/strong>the text with the mouse,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"591\" src=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-182-1024x591.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5119\" style=\"width:696px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-182-1024x591.png 1024w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-182-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-182-768x443.png 768w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-182.png 1522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The annotation is created when <strong>releasing the mouse<\/strong>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-181.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5118\" style=\"width:591px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-181.png 1020w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-181-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-181-768x610.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you want to manually <strong>delete <\/strong>the annotation, over it with your mouse, then click on the <strong>red cross<\/strong>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"966\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-183.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-183.png 966w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-183-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-183-768x205.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can configure the <strong>automatic text selection<\/strong> to extend the fragment of text you want to annotate as below:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-184.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-184.png 932w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-184-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image-184-768x409.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Important note<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A segment is in the <strong>dataset <\/strong>as soon as it contains an <strong>annotation<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do not proceed to the next segment until <strong>all <\/strong>entities have been correctly annotated<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A segment must be\u00a0<a data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/faq\/#inconsistencies\" href=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/faq\/#inconsistencies\"><strong>consistently\u00a0<\/strong>annotated<\/a>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you use the <em>Documents <\/em>view to annotate text, you may encounter an error if you want to annotate a group of words which starts in one segment and continue in another segment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s move on to the next step:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-kairntech-documentation 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