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title: Pairwise Classification
type: templates
category: Ranking and Scoring
cat: ranking-and-scoring
order: 420
meta_title: Pairwise Classification Data Labeling Template

meta_description: Template for performing pairwise classification and comparison tasks with Label Studio for your machine learning and data science projects.

Perform pairwise classification and comparison of different objects with Label Studio using this template.

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Labeling Configuration

<View>
  <Header>Select one of two items</Header>
  <Pairwise name="pw" toName="text1,text2" />
  <Text name="text1" value="$text1" />
  <Text name="text2" value="$text2" />
</View>

About the labeling configuration

All labeling configurations must be wrapped in View tags.

You can add a header to provide instructions to the annotator:
xml <Header>Select one of two items</Header>

Use the Pairwise control tag to apply pairwise selections to two samples of text:
xml <Pairwise name="pw" toName="text1,text2" />

Use the Text object tag to specify two samples of text with distinct names:
xml <Text name="text1" value="$text1" /> <Text name="text2" value="$text2" />

Related tags

• Header
• Pairwise
• Text