spyysalo
commented
13 years ago Good suggestion, thanks!
We've discussed this previously and there was some concern that "bulk deletes" or similar would promote careless annotation practices: I understand that a tool in use in GENIA annotation had this functionality, and led at least to some errors from annotators triggering "delete all" (or similar) before checking all the instances that were about to be deleted.
A possible guard against such errors would be an implementation similar to the "replace all" functionality in many text editors, where each entry is shown for separate confirmation prior to revision.
I'll take this for now for the next milestone past the current. Comments very welcome.
mlneves
ghost
snegirigens
Ability to remove and include all mentions with a certain automatically for whole document. It could be a checkbox in the annotation window. And also for all the documents in the same directory. Maybe a second checkbox for that. In our project, we pre-annotate the documents with the named entities, so that the curators only need to annotated the relationships. They are complaining that sometimes they have to remove the same mention over and over again. And a similar functionality to include all the mentions with the same text. Alternatively, we can do it programatically, changing the output files. But, (1) they have to tell me which terms are to be removed or inserted (ok, we can compare the old and the new files, but maybe it is just some of them), (2) they have to wait until we do it in order to proceed with the annotation of the relationships, (3) news examples are always coming and we will have to do it many times. Other curation tools have this functionality, for example, GATE, I think.