tan - Tiny Annotation Tool

Simple vim-like tool for NER annotation.

Features

• quickly visualize NER annotations from Spacy
• start labeling instantly (no Docker hassle like in Doccano or Label Studio)
• vim-like keybindings and interface

Installation

• nix shell github:vglfr/tan with Nix
• cargo install tantan with crates.io

Usage

tan [OPTIONS] [NAME]

Options:

• -f FORMAT, --format FORMAT [default: plain] [possible values: plain, spacy, tan]

Formats

For now only plain and Spacy formats are supported. Spacy NER annotations could be exported like this:

import json
import spacy

nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")


with open("data/test.txt") as f:
    doc = nlp(f.read())

with open("data/test.json", "w") as f:
    json.dump(doc.to_json(), f)

Modes

mode	description
normal	text preview and navigation
visual	visual selection
command	command prompt
tag	tag modal

Keybindings

Modes

key	command
:	command mode
m	tag mode
v	visual mode

Cursor movements

key	command
h	left
j	down
k	up
l	right
H	top of the screen
M	middle of the screen
L	bottom of the screen
C-n	screen down
C-p	screen up
s	start of the line
e	end of the line
S	start of the file
E	end of the file
w	word ahead
b	word behind

Normal mode

key	command
t	tag selection with active label
u	untag selection

Tag mode

key	command
j	next tag
k	previous tag
h	next color
l	previous color
a	add tag
d	delete tag
i	edit tag name
v	toggle active tag visibility
V	toggle all tag visibility
Return	rename tag / activate tag

Commands

command	description
q, quit	quit
w, write	write file at tan format