inception-project
Quick edit mode
A really useful feature for correcting already exported TSV files from past projects is a 'quick edit' feature. The idea is that TSV data could be pasted into a text box without creating a project or saving anything, then the GUI would behave as if this is a normal document and allow us to edit. Any edits are automatically reflected in the text box, and this allows small corrections to already exported files, or sharing files for light editing with users who do not have logins.
For an example of what I mean, see the quick edit mode of Arborator, a dependency tree annotation tool:
https://arborator.ilpga.fr/q.cgi
This feature request synergizes with #284 , since the type system included in the TSV could make the interface behave more accurately as expected for the pasted document.
WebAnno TSV does no longer support all the features of INCEpTION. The format is no longer developed further. While theoretically, this request could be change to apply to now recommended formats like CAS XMI or CAS JSON, I believe it would be less applicable there due to the formats being considerably less human readable than WebAnno TSV.
FWIW we ended up implementing exactly such a feature for our own purposes in our GitDox interface. You can play around with it here:
https://gucorpling.org/gitdox/spannotator.html
I wouldn't guarantee that it can handle any WebAnno TSV inputs, mainly just the functionality we use for coreference and related entity annotations in the GUM corpus and a couple of other projects. But it does work nicely for that and imports/exports WebAnno TSV as a simple string.