NLP Lab - The Free No-Code Annotation Tool

NLP Lab is a web-based application that serves as a complimentary annotation tool, available free of charge.

It becomes indispensable when you require text and image annotation, wish to refine and optimize NLP models, or increase your team's productivity by using AI assisted annotation.

Additionally, NLP Lab provides an array of specialized tools and features tailored for project and team management.

The best part?

You don't need any coding skills; everything is effortlessly accomplished through NLP Lab's user-friendly and intuitive interface.

The NLP Lab annotation tool included a comprehensive set of capabilities required for annotating various types of content, including Text, Images, Audio, Video, and HTML. It extends support for text annotation in over 250 languages. When you install this free annotation tool, you gain access to specialized annotation features for NLP tasks such as Classification, Named Entity Recognition, Assertion Status, Relation Extraction, Text Summarization.

To enhance productivity, NLP Lab provides AI-assisted annotation features. You can leverage existing models to pre-annotate tasks using the latest Spark NLP models for classification, Named Entity Recognition (NER), assertion status, and relation detection. You have the flexibility to either use default parameters for training your models or fine-tune the training process according to your specific needs.

Active learning is also included as a free feature in NLP Lab. It automatically trains new models as new data and annotations become available.

In addition to these core features, NLP Lab comes equipped with a suite of supplementary functionalities, including:

• Over 30 templates for creating new projects
• Unlimited number of projects and users
• Import and export capabilities for projects, data, but also preannotation resources such as models, rules and promts
• Predefined roles for your team members, facilitating easy customization of workflows tailored to your specific requirements
• Consensus analysis and IAA charts (Inter Annotator Agreement)
• Team performance dashboards

NLP Lab prioritizes enterprise-level security and privacy. It offers role-based access control to features and data, allowing you to control who can access specific views and features. The tool supports annotation versioning and maintains a comprehensive audit trail. Moreover, it seamlessly integrates with identity and access management solutions such as Azure AD and other systems through SAML for authentication and authorization.

Furthermore, all the features accessible through the user interface are also available via the NLP Lab API. This means you can select and integrate the features that best suit your workflow, tailoring them to your unique requirements.

Yes, NLP Lab by John Snow Labs is a free tool.

You can install it on AWS, Azure, OCI or on premise.

When you opt for a particular cloud provider, you only incur charges from the provider for the infrastructure required to deploy NLP Lab.

First of all, NLP Lab is the best in class annotation tool and it is free.

The only costs you might incur are associated with the infrastructure, should you choose to deploy it on one of the supported cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, or OCI. However, if you prefer an on-premises deployment, there are no expenses involved.

Out of the box, NLP Lab provides you with free access to a wealth of resources, including hundreds of free models and pipelines. This enables you to jumpstart your annotation processes without any delay. You can also harness the power of knowledge transfer to deep learning models without the need to write a single line of code.

In addition to its annotation-related features, NLP Lab includes a comprehensive set of tools designed to facilitate team management. If your team consists of multiple annotators and requires a specific review process, along with controlled access to data and other project-related information, NLP Lab comes equipped with pre-configured roles that you can easily apply when defining your team. User management is designed to be exceptionally user-friendly and straightforward.

Everything that NLP Lab offers for free through its user interface is also accessible through NLP Lab's API. This means that if you have a more intricate workflow or need to integrate with your existing tools and processes, you can seamlessly achieve this using the API.

If you want to use one of the major cloud providers, search for it on AWS, Azure or OCI marketplaces, install and use it right away.

If you choose to use your own infrastructure the only thing you need is to run a single command line to get a fresh install, as documented in the Installation section of NLP Lab online documentation.

Absolutely, the NLP Lab annotation tool is meticulously crafted with the utmost focus on enterprise-level security and privacy. It incorporates robust security features, including role-based access control for both features and data, role-based access tailored to specific views, annotation versioning, and a comprehensive audit trail.

Moreover, right from the start, NLP Lab offers seamless integration with various identity and access management solutions. This includes compatibility with Azure AD, as well as the ability to integrate with other systems for the exchange of authentication and authorization through SAML.