When many tags exist the annotations are not saved

[ofersabo]

Tag names are not annotated and not displayed on the webpage. Tags are also not written to the exported file.

I have a kind of SRL annotation project, with a slight difference which is that each predicate is mapped to one of 341 tags. Then I also have an additional layer of arguments (arg0,arg1,arg2) that are connected to the predicates, like in SRL.

The original project was created in WebAnno and I imported it into inception. In WebAnno the annotations work well, the predicate tags are visible and they exist in the exported document.

To Reproduce

1. import the attached project.
2. try to annotate any span for the layer of demo_layer.
3. See error

The attached screenshot shows the problem.

• using the latest docker tag uploaded 16 days ago.
• Mac os 10.15.5
• Chrome

demo_for_bug_project_2020-12-21_0924.zip

[reckart]

You have apparently chosen "AUTO" or "Plain text" as the export format. Please select "UIMA CAS XMI" or "WebAnno TSV" when exporting.

[reckart]

Note, the recommendation given above is regarding being able to "see" the annotations when extracting the ZIP file.

If the project is imported into INCEpTION, the annotations should be there regardless of the format chosen during export. I'll try importing the project and have a look. Thanks!

[ofersabo]

You have apparently chosen "AUTO" or "Plain text" as the export format. Please select "UIMA CAS XMI" or "WebAnno TSV" when exporting.

No, I used the WebAnno TSV format. The issue is that choosing the annotation tags doesn't work. so the span is just marked as the name of the layer.

[reckart]

Ok, gotcha. Which browser are you using?

[ofersabo]

Chrome

[reckart]

Ok, I can reproduce it. Very strange.

[reckart]

Ok, found the bug :)

[reckart]

Upstream issue: https://github.com/webanno/webanno/pull/1832

[reckart]

Fixed upstream.

[ofersabo]

Thanks, @reckart! Any idea when this change will be available in the docker version?

[reckart]

Once 0.17.3 has been released. If you need it earlier, you can build directly from the sources. Check out the `inception-app-webapp/src/main/docker/README.md´ file for points on building the docker image after having built the whole project.

Please note that INCEpTION can be significantly slower than normal if you build INCEpTION from the GitHub sources because it enables an internal sanity checking mode.

To disable the sanity checks, you can add the following setting to the settings.properties file [1]:

debug.casDoctor.forceReleaseBehavior=true

[reckart]

There are a couple of other issues we are also investigating right now - so I would assume that 0.17.3 won't happen this year anymore.

[reckart]

Oh and mind that the fix for this particular issue is in the WebAnno code base - so you need to check out both, the WebAnno code repository and the INCEpTION code repository and build both - you only need to build Docker in INCEpTION though.

[reckart]

@ofersabo should be available on Docker now (0.17.3 / latest)

[ofersabo]

Amazing @reckart

Thank you :)