Default values for primitives features

[AlArgente]

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Hi, I'm trying to use constraints for primitives features to make them to have a default value while annotating. I want to use this because I want to make a double document level annotation, but I don't want to use zero-width annotation because it seems to be hard to annotate for some annotators and it requires a lot of time.

I know that at Inception I can do this type of annotation but it won't count for calculating the metrics, so I didn't swap to Inception.

My objetive is to reduce the time the annotation takes, so I think this could be helpful. Right know I'm doubting if I must use a string feature and a slot feature with default values that Webanno provide, or using two slot features, one for each document level annotation.

Sorry if I explained it wrong, my English is not very good.

I think Webanno is a really good annotation system, and I think that this kind of feature could help to improve the performance of it.

Best, Alberto.

[reckart]

Would it be sufficient for you to add an option to set a default value for a feature in the feature configuration of the layers tab in the project settings?

[AlArgente]

But I can only do that if the feature is a link to a layer. I did that in the end and seems to work fine. I just thought it could be good to have default values for string's features, so when you select the spans then you just click and it get auto-annotated.

Thanks for your help.

[reckart]

So let's say you have an annotation with some string feature. You want that you can configure a default value for that string feature such that when you create en annotation of that type, the string feature starts with the default value, right?

[AlArgente]

Yes. But I want this type of annotation for a document level annotation, so I will use it just 1 time for each document. I know I can have a default value if I multiples annotations from a string feature, and its really useful but not in this case.

As I thought it is like the default value for slots features, but without having to click on the word again.