Enabling cross-sentence relations (Experimental)

English entities and relations workspaces that you create can support annotating relations between pairs of entity mentions that exist within spans of six sentences. In workspaces where the cross-sentence relations feature is not enabled, the ground truth editor and runtime models do not support annotating relations that cross sentence boundaries.

Cross-sentence relations is an experimental feature that might be discontinued without notice. It is not recommended to use this feature in a production environment.

Enabling cross-sentence relations might decrease the performance of the ground truth editor and the performance of any models that you deploy from the workspace at runtime. The cross-sentence relations setting cannot be changed for a workspace after it is created.

For example, if you plan to annotate a relation for an entity mention in the seventh sentence below, you are limited to selecting other entity mentions only in the seventh sentence unless you enable cross-sentence relations. With the feature enabled, you can annotate a related entity mention within a span of six sentences (across up to five sentence boundaries), so the second entity mention in the relation could be annotated anywhere from the second sentence to the twelfth sentence.

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