Use Case

The following glossary is the full list of supported data types and their corresponding use cases, pipelines, and available labels. The API task type column refers to the task type you should use if you are following our API reference.

Uploaded data type Available use cases Available pipelines Available labels API reference task type
Text Content Classification Standard
Consensus		 Annotation
Linear scale
List selection
Tree selection		 textcollection
Text Generation Generative Annotation
Text response 		textcollection
Transcription Standard Annotation
Text response 		textcollection
Named Entity Recognition Standard Annotation
Entity
Attribute Annotation attribute
Link attribute
 namedentityrecognition
Content Collection Standard
Consensus		 Annotation
Text response
List selection
Tree selection
Date
Linear scale
Ranking
Label group
 textcollection
Image Object Detection Standard Annotation
Box
Polygon
Point
Ellipse
Cuboid
Line
Attribute
Global attribute
Annotation attribute
Link attribute
imageannotation
Semantic Segmentation Standard Attribute
Global attribute
Annotation attribute
Link attribute
segmentannotation
Entity Extraction Standard Annotation
Entity
Attribute
Global attribute
Annotation attribute
Link attribute
doctranscription
All use cases from the Text section except Named Entity Recognition apply here too.
Video Object & Event Detection Standard Annotation
Box
Polygon
Point
Ellipse
Cuboid
Line
Attribute
Global attribute
Annotation attribute
Link attribute
videoplaybackannotation
All use cases from the Text section except Named Entity Recognition apply here too.
PDFs/Documents Entity Extraction Standard Annotation
Entity
Attribute
Global attribute
Annotation attribute
Link attribute
doctranscription
All use cases from the Text section except Named Entity Recognition apply here too.
Audio All use cases from the Text section except Named Entity Recognition apply here too.

To see different examples of our use cases and their supported label types, please refer to the images below.

Object Detection

Comprehensive annotation for 2D images. Supports box, polygon, line, point, cuboid, and ellipse geometries. This is the recommended task type for annotating images with vector geometric shapes.

Supported Label Types & Examples:

  1. Box Annotation

  2. Polygon Annotation

  3. Point Annotation

  4. Ellipse Annotation

  5. Cuboid Annotation

  6. Line Annotation

  7. Annotation Attribute

  8. Links

Content Classification

Supported Label Types & Examples:

  1. List selection

  2. Tree selection

Semantic Segmentation

Supported Label Types & Examples:

  1. Label

  2. Annotation Attribute

Content Collection

Supported Label Types & Examples:

  1. List selection

  2. Tree selection

  3. Date

  4. Linear Scale

  5. Ranking

  6. Label Group

Named Entity Recognition

Supported Label Types & Examples:

  1. Entity

  2. Links

Entity Extraction

Supported Label Types & Examples:

  1. Entity

  2. Select

Updated 9 months ago