Label Set Management

Manage label sets in a team workspace.

With label set management, you can save and edit label sets outside a project. You can later reuse them in span labeling or conversational labeling projects.

Learn more about the label set structure.

Label set management page

Changes made in the Label management page are not automatically applied to existing projects.

In the Label sets tab, you can add new label sets, edit existing label sets, or delete them.

Add label set

There are two ways to add label sets: upload a label set or create it from scratch.

Upload a label set

You can upload an existing label set by dragging and dropping the file into the upload area. Supported formats: .csv , .json , and .tsv .

Refer to the sample format below to ensure compatibility.

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Label set sample.csv

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Label set sample (1).json

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Label set sample.tsv

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Create label sets from scratch

You can also create a label set manually. The dialog includes two tabs: Standard and JSON. These tabs are synchronized, changes in one tab automatically update the other.

To create a label set in the Standard tab:

1. Type a label class.

2. Choose a label color by selecting a color from the dropdown.

3. Click the Add clarification icon and enter the description to add additional information.

Edit label sets

To edit a label set:

1. Select the label set you want to edit.

2. Click the Edit icon on the right side.

1. Update the label items and their properties. You can:

   1. Rename a label class by editing its name field.

   2. Change the label color using the color dropdown.

   3. Edit the clarification using the Edit clarification icon.

Delete label sets

To delete a label set:

1. Select one or multiple label sets.

2. Click the Delete button at the top of the table to delete multiple label sets, or click the delete icon on the right side to delete a single label set.

3. Confirm the action.

Search label sets

You can search for label sets by entering keywords in the search bar.

Use existing label sets during project creation

To use an existing label set when creating a project:

1. In step 3 of project creation, select Span labeling or Conversational labeling.

   
2. Click Select from library to use an existing label set from the Label management page.

   
3. After you select a label set, you can edit them. Any changes made here will not affect the original label set in the library.

   

Update existing projects with existing label sets

After a project is created, you can modify the label set if needed. You can reuse label sets from the Label management page.

If the Label set modification setting is turned off, only admins or project owners can modify label sets. If it is turned on, labelers can also modify them. This setting is turned on by default. For details, visit question set modification.