Label text

Start a text labeling task.

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Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Data Labeling Service, see Data Labeling Service client libraries. For more information, see the Data Labeling Service Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Data Labeling Service, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import com.google.api.gax.longrunning.OperationFuture;
import com.google.cloud.datalabeling.v1beta1.AnnotatedDataset;
import com.google.cloud.datalabeling.v1beta1.DataLabelingServiceClient;
import com.google.cloud.datalabeling.v1beta1.DataLabelingServiceSettings;
import com.google.cloud.datalabeling.v1beta1.HumanAnnotationConfig;
import com.google.cloud.datalabeling.v1beta1.LabelOperationMetadata;
import com.google.cloud.datalabeling.v1beta1.LabelTextRequest;
import com.google.cloud.datalabeling.v1beta1.LabelTextRequest.Feature;
import com.google.cloud.datalabeling.v1beta1.SentimentConfig;
import com.google.cloud.datalabeling.v1beta1.TextClassificationConfig;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;

class LabelText {

  // Start a Text Labeling Task
  static void labelText(
      String formattedInstructionName,
      String formattedAnnotationSpecSetName,
      String formattedDatasetName)
      throws IOException {
    // String formattedInstructionName = DataLabelingServiceClient.formatInstructionName(
    //      "YOUR_PROJECT_ID", "YOUR_INSTRUCTION_UUID");
    // String formattedAnnotationSpecSetName =
    //     DataLabelingServiceClient.formatAnnotationSpecSetName(
    //         "YOUR_PROJECT_ID", "YOUR_ANNOTATION_SPEC_SET_UUID");
    // String formattedDatasetName = DataLabelingServiceClient.formatDatasetName(
    //      "YOUR_PROJECT_ID", "YOUR_DATASET_UUID");


    DataLabelingServiceSettings settings =
        DataLabelingServiceSettings.newBuilder()
            .build();
    try (DataLabelingServiceClient dataLabelingServiceClient =
        DataLabelingServiceClient.create(settings)) {
      HumanAnnotationConfig humanAnnotationConfig =
          HumanAnnotationConfig.newBuilder()
              .setAnnotatedDatasetDisplayName("annotated_displayname")
              .setAnnotatedDatasetDescription("annotated_description")
              .setLanguageCode("en-us")
              .setInstruction(formattedInstructionName)
              .build();

      SentimentConfig sentimentConfig =
          SentimentConfig.newBuilder().setEnableLabelSentimentSelection(false).build();

      TextClassificationConfig textClassificationConfig =
          TextClassificationConfig.newBuilder()
              .setAnnotationSpecSet(formattedAnnotationSpecSetName)
              .setSentimentConfig(sentimentConfig)
              .build();

      LabelTextRequest labelTextRequest =
          LabelTextRequest.newBuilder()
              .setParent(formattedDatasetName)
              .setBasicConfig(humanAnnotationConfig)
              .setTextClassificationConfig(textClassificationConfig)
              .setFeature(Feature.TEXT_CLASSIFICATION)
              .build();

      OperationFuture<AnnotatedDataset, LabelOperationMetadata> operation =
          dataLabelingServiceClient.labelTextAsync(labelTextRequest);

      // You'll want to save this for later to retrieve your completed operation.
      // System.out.format("Operation Name: %s\n", operation.getName());

      // Cancel the operation to avoid charges when testing.
      dataLabelingServiceClient.getOperationsClient().cancelOperation(operation.getName());

    } catch (IOException | InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Data Labeling Service, see Data Labeling Service client libraries. For more information, see the Data Labeling Service Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Data Labeling Service, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

def label_text(
    dataset_resource_name, instruction_resource_name, annotation_spec_set_resource_name
):
    """Labels a text dataset."""
    from google.cloud import datalabeling_v1beta1 as datalabeling

    client = datalabeling.DataLabelingServiceClient()

    basic_config = datalabeling.HumanAnnotationConfig(
        instruction=instruction_resource_name,
        annotated_dataset_display_name="YOUR_ANNOTATED_DATASET_DISPLAY_NAME",
        label_group="YOUR_LABEL_GROUP",
        replica_count=1,
    )

    feature = datalabeling.LabelTextRequest.Feature.TEXT_ENTITY_EXTRACTION

    config = datalabeling.TextEntityExtractionConfig(
        annotation_spec_set=annotation_spec_set_resource_name
    )

    response = client.label_text(
        request={
            "parent": dataset_resource_name,
            "basic_config": basic_config,
            "feature": feature,
            "text_classification_config": config,
        }
    )

    print(f"Label_text operation name: {response.operation.name}")
    return response

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