Data Annotator for Machine Learning

Data Annotator for Machine Learning (DAML) is an application that helps machine learning teams facilitating the creation and management of annotations.

Core features include:

• Support for common annotation tasks:
  • Text classification
  • Named entity recognition
  • Tabular classification and regresion
  • Images recognition with bounding boxes and polygons
  • Log labeling
• Active learning with uncertainly sampling to query unlabeled data
• Project tracking with real time data aggregation and review process
• User management panel with role-based access control
• Data management
  • Import in common data formats
  • Export in ML friendly formats
  • Data sharing through community datasets
• Swagger API for programmatic labeling, connecting to data pipelines and more

Helpful links

• ATO 2021 talk
• DAML medium article
• User guide
• Tutorial

DAML upgrade

• DAML upgrade to v3.0.0 that mainly raise UI/UX to a higher standard
  • DAML v3.0.0 release note. The latest code saved in branch master.
  • DAML versions older than v3.0.0 releases. The last version v2.1.0 (which still keep our old UI style) before v3.0.0 is saved in branch DAML-v2.1.0.
• As for DAML UI upgrade, our e2e code also updated
  • The latest e2e code saved in branch e2e-test.
  • The old UI e2e code saved in branch DAML-v2.1.0-e2e.

What is included

DAML project includes three components:

• annotation-app: Angular application for the UI
• annotation-service: Backend services built with Node & Express
• active-learning-service: Django application providing active learning api using modAL library for pool-based uncertainty sampling to rank the unlabelled data

Quick start

• For the docker version usage to see run with docker documentation
• For development environment and build configuration see build documentation
• For the slack integration configuration see manifest documentation

Contributing

DAML project team welcomes contributions from the community. For more detailed information, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Bugs and feature requests

Have a bug or a feature request? Please first read the issue guidelines and search for existing and closed issues. If your problem or idea is not addressed yet, please open a new issue.

Copyright and license

Copyright 2019-2021 VMware, Inc. SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0.