Not able to create Custom NER Project from existing tagged JSON file

Question

I am trying to implement a custom named entity recognition project; I already created a storage container an uploaded data that are already tagged, when creating a new project I can select the storage container and tagged file,

but when I click on "Create Project" it is showing an error like below

Both intents and entities in project JSON can't be null or empty. If you want to create an empty project, please use the create project API instead.

But the point is, in the json document every object has "entities" defined, none of the entities are null or empty!

Is this a technical issue from Azure, or can anyone help me with this?

Answer 1

I believe there is some changes for the excepted format, I will reach out to product team to check.

For now, please try my sample format, this works to me, I only labeled date in my sample.

{"intentNames":[],"entityNames":["date"],"entityHierarchySeparator":null,"documents":[{"text":null,"location":"01.txt","culture":"en-us","intents":null,"entities":[{"regionStart":5,"regionLength":9,"labels":[{"entity":0,"start":5,"length":9,"autoTagged":false}]}],"datasets":null},{"text":null,"location":"02.txt","culture":"en-us","intents":null,"entities":[{"regionStart":5,"regionLength":10,"labels":[{"entity":0,"start":5,"length":10,"autoTagged":false}]}],"datasets":null},{"text":null,"location":"03.txt","culture":"en-us","intents":null,"entities":[{"regionStart":5,"regionLength":9,"labels":[{"entity":0,"start":5,"length":9,"autoTagged":false}]}],"datasets":null},{"text":null,"location":"04.txt","culture":"en-us","intents":null,"entities":[{"regionStart":5,"regionLength":9,"labels":[{"entity":0,"start":5,"length":9,"autoTagged":false}]}],"datasets":null},{"text":null,"location":"05.txt","culture" :"en-us","intents":null,"entities":[{"regionStart":5,"regionLength":9,"labels":[{"entity":0,"start":5,"length":9,"autoTagged":false}]}],"datasets":null},{"text":null,"location":"06.txt","culture":"en-us","intents":null,"entities":[{"regionStart":5,"regionLength":8,"labels":[{"entity":0,"start":5,"length":8,"autoTagged":false}]}],"datasets":null},{"text":null,"location":"07.txt","culture":"en-us","intents":null,"entities":[{"regionStart":5,"regionLength":9,"labels":[{"entity":0,"start":5,"length":9,"autoTagged":false}]}],"datasets":null},{"text":null,"location":"08.txt","culture":"en-us","intents":null,"entities":[{"regionStart":5,"regionLength":10,"labels":[{"entity":0,"start":5,"length":10,"autoTagged":false}]}],"datasets":null},{"text":null,"location":"09.txt","culture":"en-us","intents":null,"entities":[{"regionStart":5,"regionLength":10,"labels":[{"entity":0,"start":5,"length":10,"autoTagged":false}]}] ,"datasets":null},{"text":null,"location":"10.txt","culture":"en-us","intents":null,"entities":[{"regionStart":5,"regionLength":9,"labels":[{"entity":0,"start":5,"length":9,"autoTagged":false}]}],"datasets":null}]}