tantan

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

Keybindings

Modes

Cursor movements

Normal mode

Tag mode

Commands