Paragraphs

The Paragraphs tag displays paragraphs of text on the labeling interface. Use to label dialogue transcripts for NLP and NER projects. The Paragraphs tag expects task data formatted as an array of objects like the following: [{ $nameKey: “Author name”, $textKey: “Text” }, … ]

Use with the following data types: text.

Parameters

Param	Type	Default	Description
name	string		Name of the element
value	string		Data field containing the paragraph content
[valueType]	json | url	json	Whether the data is stored directly in uploaded JSON data or needs to be loaded from a URL
[audioUrl]	string		Audio to sync phrases with
[sync]	string		Object name to sync with
[showPlayer]	boolean	false	Whether to show audio player above the paragraphs. Ignored if sync object is audio
[saveTextResult]	no | yes	yes	Whether to store labeled text along with the results. By default, doesn’t store text for valueType=url
[layout]	none | dialogue	none	Whether to use a dialogue-style layout or not
[nameKey]	string	"author"	The key field to use for name
[textKey]	string	"text"	The key field to use for the text
[contextScroll]	boolean	false	Turn on contextual scroll mode

Sample Results JSON

Name	Type	Description
value	Object
value.start	number	index of paragraph where the region starts
value.end	number	index of paragraph where the region ends
value.startOffset	number	offset within start paragraph
value.endOffset	number	offset within end paragraph
[value.text]	string	text content of the region, can be skipped

Example JSON

{
  "value": {
    "start": 3,
    "end": 5,
    "startOffset": 2,
    "endOffset": 81,
    "paragraphlabels": ["Car"]
  }
}

Example

Labeling configuration to label paragraph regions of text containing dialogue

<View>
  <Paragraphs name="dialogue-1" value="$dialogue" layout="dialogue" />
  <ParagraphLabels name="importance" toName="dialogue-1">
    <Label value="Important content"></Label>
    <Label value="Random talk"></Label>
  </ParagraphLabels>
</View>

Example

Paragraphs with audio

<View>
  <Paragraphs audioUrl="$audio" value="$para" name="paragraphs"
              layout="dialogue" textKey="text" nameKey="author"
              showPlayer="true"
              />

  <Choices name="choices" toName="paragraphs" choice="multiple">
      <Choice value="Good quality"/>
      <Choice value="Fast speech"/>
  </Choices>
</View>

<!-- {"data": {
  "para": [
    {"text": "test 1", "author": "A", "start": 0.0, "end": 1.0},
    {"text": "test 2", "author": "B", "start": 1.0, "end": 2.0},
    {"text": "test 3", "author": "A", "start": 2.0, "end": 3.0}
  ],
  "audio": "/static/samples/game.wav"
}}
-->