Recipes

Recipes are functions that define workflows for annotation, model training, data analysis, automated actions and more. Ellf comes with a range of built-in workflows for different use cases and also lets you implement your own custom recipes that run on your cluster.

Use Ellf to configure recipes for you

If you’ve connected Ellf to your coding assistant, it will be able to create and start tasks, actions, agents and services for you. You can also use the in-app chat and reference resources via @, for example to start a task using a data source, train from a dataset or assign an agent to a running task.

Tasks Annotation and review

Tasks are workflows that preprocess and queue up data for annotation or review and start the annotation server. You can view and create them in the UI via Tasks or using the CLI commands under ellf tasks.

Named Entity Recognition

Annotate labeled text spans representing real-world objects like names, persons, countries or products.

Span Categorization

Annotate potentially overlapping and nested spans in the data.

Text Classification

Assign categories to whole documents or sentences.

Relation Extraction

Annotate relations between tokens and spans. Also supports joint span and relation annotation.

Coreference Resolution

Annotate coreference, i.e. links of ambiguous mentions like "her" or "the woman" back to an antecedent providing more context about the entity in question

Dependency Parsing

Annotate syntactic dependencies.

Part of Speech tagging recipe

Annotate word types.

Terminology List

Bootstrap a terminology list from word vectors. Terminology lists can be converted into patterns to help pre-select entity spans during annotation.

Image Annotation & Classification

Annotate bounding boxes and segments, or assign categories to images.

Annotate Audio

Annotate regions, assign categories to audio content or transcribe audio files.

Annotate Video

Annotate regions, assign categories to video content or transcribe video files.

Curate and Explore

View what's in your data and accept or reject examples

Review Annotations

Review existing annotations created by multiple annotators and resolve potential conflicts by creating one final annotation.

Sentence Segmentation

Create gold data for sentence boundaries by correcting a model's predictions

Actions Training, evaluation and more

Actions are workflows that execute any logic and exit, similar to jobs running in a CI system. You can view and create them in the UI via Actions or using the CLI commands under ellf actions.

Dataset operations

Merge, copy and export annotated data

Migrate dataset to structured

Convert an unstructured dataset to the structured format

Hello world

Print 'hello world'

Download spaCy models

Download and install one or more spaCy models to shared storage so they can be loaded with spacy.load()

Train a spaCy pipeline

Train a spaCy model with one or more components on annotated data

Textcat LLM fetch

Gather text categorization predictions from an LLM

Agents Auto-annotation and automation

Agents are autonomous workers and annotators that can be assigned to tasks. They’re typically powered by LLMs and can use models running on the cluster or via APIs. You can view and create them in the UI via Agents or using the CLI commands under ellf agents.

Gemini Annotation Agent

Autonomous annotation agent powered by Google Gemini

spaCy Agent

Deterministic local annotation agent for tests and development

Services Apps and APIs

Services are long-running background processes like REST or MCP APIs and apps that are served from your cluster. You can view and create them in the UI via Services or using the CLI commands under ellf services.

Coming soon: This section is still under construction.

Community Recipes Third-party and other plugins

These recipes can be installed to your cluster separately and are provided by other packages by us or the developer community. If you want to contribute a recipe you’ve built, get in touch! For more details on custom recipes, see the recipe development guide.

Coming soon: This section is still under construction.