Streamlit Named Entity Recognition (NER) Annotation component

This is a component to assist with the annotation of named entities in an unstructured piece of text. The concept for this is borrowed from what is offered by Prodi.gy. This code is derived from the work done by andfalino in his excellent streamlit-named-entity-svelte repository.

The functionality has been expanded to allow for selecting of new entities and uses the streamlit-component-svelte-template.

I am also using this component as a testbed to get familiar with streamlit custom components and svelte.

NOTE This is a work in progress

Development

• Backend
  • Install Poetry
  • Run poetry intall
  • Drop into a virtualenv shell poetry shell
  • Install a spacy model python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
  • Edit st_ner_annotate/__init__.py change _RELEASE to False
  • Run streamlit run st_ner_annotate/__init__.py
• Frontend
  • cd st_codemirror_diff/frontend
  • npm install
  • npm start
• Now the frontend and backend should be up, the page can be accessed at http://localhost:8501

Development - Release

• Frontend
  • Run npm run build in st_ner_annotate/frontend
• Backend
  • Edit st_ner_annotate/__init__.py change _RELEASE to True
  • Drop into python virtualenv by running poetry shell
  • Build python dist wheels python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
  • This will create the python st_ner_annotate-<version>-py3-none-any.whl in the dist dir
  • Now install this via python -m pip install <path-to-st_ner_annotate.whl>

Demo

References

1. Prodi.gy
2. streamlit-named-entity-svelte
3. streamlit-component-svelte-template
4. Text sample in demo taken from wiki entry on Manhattan