Tasks

The DocYard Interactive Client can contain jobs that consist of various task types.

This document describes the functionality and features of each task type.

Task types

Named entity recognition

Named entity recognition (NER) is a subtask of information extraction in natural language processing (NLP) that classifies named entities into predefined categories such as person names, organizations, locations, medical codes, time expressions, quantities, monetary values, and more.

In the named entity recognition task, the user is presented with a text document to interact with, along with a list of interactive tags.

The tag selected at the top of the page can be applied to the text by highlighting it. The highlighted text will be shown tagged, with the name of the tag displayed next to the tagged phrase. It's not possible to apply more than one tag at a time to the same text. If a phrase before and after a tagged entry is highlighted, the highlight will be considered invalid and nothing will be tagged.

Clicking on a tag will remove it, regardless of which tag is selected.