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When you attach a text data row to a project, the Labelbox will automatically adjust the editor interface for text labeling.

Import text data

To learn how to text data to Labelbox, visit our docs on Importing text data.

Supported annotation types

Below are all of the annotation types you may include in your ontology when you are labeling text data. Classification-type annotations can be applied at the global level and/or nested within an object-type annotation.

Text entity

Create an entity by clicking the desired starting character and dragging to select a sequence of characters in the unstructured text.

The characters in a text file are not restricted to a single annotation. Therefore, entity annotations can overlap completely or partially.

Relationship

With the annotation relationships feature, you can create and define relationships between entity annotations in unstructured text. You can then use these annotation relationships to consolidate labeling workflows and potentially reduce the number of language models needed.

Create an annotation relationship with the following steps:

1. Create two entity annotations.
2. Use Option + Click to create a relationship between the entity annotations.
3. Define the relationship, selecting from the existing tools in your ontology.

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Relationships can be undefined

If desired, a relationship between two annotations can be defined with without a value. This denotes a direct relationship between the annotations without any extra modifiers.

Text-specific hotkeys