Prodigy Recipes

This repository contains a collection of recipes for Prodigy, our scriptable annotation tool for text, images and other data. In order to use this repo, you'll need a license for Prodigy – see this page for more details. For questions and bug reports, please use the Prodigy Support Forum. If you've found a mistake or bug, feel free to submit a pull request.

✨ Important note: The recipes in this repository aren't 100% identical to the built-in recipes shipped with Prodigy. They've been edited to include comments and more information, and some of them have been simplified to make it easier to follow what's going on, and to use them as the basis for a custom recipe.

📋 Usage

Once Prodigy is installed, you should be able to run the prodigy command from your terminal, either directly or via python -m:

python -m prodigy

The prodigy command lists the built-in recipes. To use a custom recipe script, simply pass the path to the file using the -F argument:

python -m prodigy ner.teach your_dataset en_core_web_sm ./data.jsonl --label PERSON -F prodigy-recipes/ner/ner_teach.py

You can also use the --help flag for an overview of the available arguments of a recipe, e.g. prodigy ner.teach -F ner_teach_.py --help.

Some things to try

You can edit the code in the recipe script to customize how Prodigy behaves.

• Try replacing prefer_uncertain() with prefer_high_scores().
• Try writing a custom sorting function. It just needs to be a generator that yields a sequence of example dicts, given a sequence of (score, example) tuples.
• Try adding a filter that drops some questions from the stream. For instance, try writing a filter that only asks you questions where the entity is two words long.
• Try customizing the update() callback, to include extra logging or extra functionality.

🍳 Recipes

Named Entity Recognition

Recipe	Description
ner.teach	Collect the best possible training data for a named entity recognition model with the model in the loop. Based on your annotations, Prodigy will decide which questions to ask next.
ner.match	Suggest phrases that match a given patterns file, and mark whether they are examples of the entity you're interested in. The patterns file can include exact strings or token patterns for use with spaCy's Matcher.
ner.manual	Mark spans manually by token. Requires only a tokenizer and no entity recognizer, and doesn't do any active learning. Optionally, pre-highlight spans based on patterns.
ner.fuzzy_manual	Like ner.manual but use FuzzyMatcher from spaczz library to pre-highlight candidates.
ner.manual.bert	Use BERT word piece tokenizer for efficient manual NER annotation for transformer models.
ner.correct	Create gold-standard data by correcting a model's predictions manually. This recipe used to be called ner.make_gold.
ner.silver-to-gold	Take an existing "silver" dataset with binary accept/reject annotations, merge the annotations to find the best possible analysis given the constraints defined in the annotations, and manually edit it to create a perfect and complete "gold" dataset.
ner.eval_ab	Evaluate two NER models by comparing their predictions and building an evaluation set from the stream.
ner_fuzzy_manual	Mark spans manually by token with suggestions from spaczz fuzzy matcher pre-highlighted.

Text Classification

Recipe	Description
textcat.manual	Manually annotate categories that apply to a text. Supports annotation tasks with single and multiple labels. Multiple labels can optionally be flagged as exclusive.
textcat.correct	Correct the textcat model's predictions manually. Predictions above the acceptance threshold will be automatically preselected (0.5 by default). Prodigy will infer whether the categories should be mutualy exclusive based on the component configuration.
textcat.teach	Collect the best possible training data for a text classification model with the model in the loop. Based on your annotations, Prodigy will decide which questions to ask next.
textcat.custom-model	Use active learning-powered text classification with a custom model. To demonstrate how it works, this demo recipe uses a simple dummy model that "predicts" random scores. But you can swap it out for any model of your choice, for example a text classification model implementation using PyTorch, TensorFlow or scikit-learn.

Terminology

Recipe	Description
terms.teach	Bootstrap a terminology list with word vectors and seeds terms. Prodigy will suggest similar terms based on the word vectors, and update the target vector accordingly.

Image

Recipe	Description
image.manual	Manually annotate images by drawing rectangular bounding boxes or polygon shapes on the image.
image-caption	Annotate images with captions, pre-populate captions with image captioning model implemented in PyTorch and perform error analysis.
image.frozenmodel	Model in loop manual annotation using Tensorflow's Object Detection API.
image.servingmodel	Model in loop manual annotation using Tensorflow's Object Detection API. This uses Tensorflow Serving
image.trainmodel	Model in loop manual annotation and training using Tensorflow's Object Detection API.

Other

Recipe	Description
mark	Click through pre-prepared examples, with no model in the loop.
choice	Annotate data with multiple-choice options. The annotated examples will have an additional property "accept": [] mapping to the ID(s) of the selected option(s).
question_answering	Annotate question/answer pairs with a custom HTML interface.

Community recipes

Recipe	Author	Description
phrases.teach	@kabirkhan	Now part of sense2vec.
phrases.to-patterns	@kabirkhan	Now part of sense2vec.
records.link	@kabirkhan	Link records across multiple datasets using the dedupe library.

Tutorial recipes

These recipes have made an appearance in one of our tutorials.

Recipe	Description
span-and-textcat	Do both spancat and textcat annotations at the same time. Great for chatbots!
terms.from-ner	Generate terms from previous NER annotations.
audio-with-transcript	Handles both manual audio annotation as well as transcription.
progress	Demo of an update-callback that tracks annotation speed.

📚 Example Datasets and Patterns

To make it even easier to get started, we've also included a few example-datasets, both raw data as well as data containing annotations created with Prodigy. For examples of token-based match patterns to use with recipes like ner.teach or ner.match, see the example-patterns directory.