Annotating data in Doccano

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Does anyone know why I do not get the tags in my dataset as shown on the tutorials/examples? I've highlighted a Dutch word with the tag 'direct medical relevance' but it doesn't appear as tagged when I press the label shortcut.

Does anyone know how to fix this? Transcription data with one 'annotated' word

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Seems like a bug to me, the project repo was updated a few days ago.

The demo has the same problem for me as the one you describe, meaning that nothing happens on mouse button release and I can't set any labels: https://doccano.herokuapp.com/demo/sentiment-analysis

The NER demo which uses a slightly different script still works for me: https://doccano.herokuapp.com/demo/named-entity-recognition

So you could see if you find an issue for this problem (or write one yourself) or you can try to clone and go to an older commit before this problem.

From my personal experience while I found Doccano alright to work with for a while I found there to generally be a lot of bugs and quirks around the frontend interface which can give you a hard time if you try to annotate a large corpus. Also I dislike the fact that you can annotate string spans which are not following the token spans, since that caused me to misclick and having to correct it a lot, but that might be a personal issue. I switched to Universal Data Tools Named Entity Recognition Tool which worked better for me since it does the mentioned things differently and can be run entirely in the browser.