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title: Use GLiNER for NER annotation
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meta_title: Use GLiNER for NER annotation
meta_description: Tutorial on how to use GLiNER with your Label Studio project to complete NER tasks
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- Natural Language Processing
- Named Entity Recognition
- GLiNER
- BERT
- Hugging Face

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Use GLiNER for NER annotation

The GLiNER model is a BERT family model for generalist NER. We download the model from HuggingFace, but the original
model is
available on GitHub.

Before you begin

Before you begin, you must install the Label Studio ML backend.

This tutorial uses the gliner example.

Running with Docker (recommended)

1. Start Machine Learning backend on http://localhost:9090 with prebuilt image:

docker-compose up

1. Validate that backend is running

$ curl http://localhost:9090/
{"status":"UP"}

1. Create a project in Label Studio. Then from the Model page in the project settings, connect the model. The default URL is http://localhost:9090.

Building from source (advanced)

To build the ML backend from source, you have to clone the repository and build the Docker image:

docker-compose build

Running without Docker (advanced)

To run the ML backend without Docker, you have to clone the repository and install all dependencies using pip:

python -m venv ml-backend
source ml-backend/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Then you can start the ML backend:

label-studio-ml start ./dir_with_your_model

Configuration

Parameters can be set in docker-compose.yml before running the container.

The following common parameters are available:
- BASIC_AUTH_USER - Specify the basic auth user for the model server.
- BASIC_AUTH_PASS - Specify the basic auth password for the model server.
- LOG_LEVEL - Set the log level for the model server.
- WORKERS - Specify the number of workers for the model server.
- THREADS - Specify the number of threads for the model server.
- LABEL_STUDIO_URL - Specify the URL of your Label Studio instance. Note that this might need to be http://host.docker.internal:8080 if you are running Label Studio on another Docker container.
- LABEL_STUDIO_API_KEY- Specify the API key for authenticating your Label Studio instance. You can find this by logging into Label Studio and and going to the Account & Settings page.