Web Service Method: Annotate from File

24/03/2026

Description
[file] Returns the document annotated with extracted concepts and extracted terms in RDF/XML representation.

URL: /extractor/api/annotate

Supported Methods
POST

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
categorizationWithPpxBoost	boolean	false	Use Extractor boosting, default = false
categorize	boolean	false	Categorization extraction, default = false
conceptMinimumScore	Double	false	Minimum required score of concepts, default = 0
conceptSchemeFilters	Array of String	false	Concept scheme URI filters
corpusScoring	Array of String	false	Corpus term scoring. Enabled if corpusIds (UUID) are provided.
customAttributeFilters	Array of CustomProperty	false	Custom attribute (property uri and string value) filters
customClassFilters	Array of String	false	Custom class URI filters
disambiguate	boolean	false	Use thesaurus based disambiguation, default = false
displayText	boolean	false	Include text extracted from url in response, default = false
documentClassifierIds	Array of String	false	Enable document classification by giving the document classifier IDs as input
documentId	String	false	Internal ID of the document, taken from documentUri
documentUri	String	true	URI of annotated document, used as ID
extractorVersion	String	false	Version of PPX Extractor used
file	MultipartFile	true	File to be annotated (word, excel, powerpoint, pdf, open document) - Mime type of request must be 'multipart/form-data'
filterNestedConcepts	boolean	false	Remove concepts matches which are contained within other matches, default = true
findPersonNames	boolean	false	Deprecated (use nerParameters) - extracts person names from the given text
language	String	false	Extraction language (en\|de\|es\|fr\|...)
lemmatization	boolean	false	Use lemmatization, default = true
locationExtraction	boolean	false	Deprecated (use nerParameters) - extracts locations from the given text
nerParameters	Array of NERConfig	false	Array of models that are used for Named Entity Recognition
numberOfConcepts	Integer	false	Retrieve number of concepts, default = 25
numberOfTerms	Integer	false	Retrieve number of terms, default = 25
phraseLength	Integer	false	Phrase length, default = 4
projectId	Array of String	false	Thesaurus projectIds
properties	Array of String	false	Array of custom class attributes and relations that will be fetched by providing their property URIs as input. Furthermore it supports http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type. Set to all to fetch all properties.
regexFilename	String	false	File name for regex patterns
resultFilterSparql	String	false	Specify an optional SPARQL query for filtering the RDF result
sentimentAnalysis	boolean	false	Sentiment analysis, default: false
shadowConceptCorpusId	Array of String	false	Shadow concepts calculation. Enabled if corpusIds (UUID) are provided.
showMatchingDetails	boolean	false	Shows which concept labels where found inside the text, default = false
showMatchingPosition	boolean	false	Shows the position of the matched text. Only shown if showMatchingDetails = true. default = false
tfidfScoring	boolean	false	Use TFIDF scoring, default = false
title	String	false	Title of the document
useRelatedConcepts	boolean	false	Retrieve related concepts, default = false
useTransitiveBroaderConcepts	boolean	false	Retrieve transitive broader concepts, default = false
useTransitiveBroaderTopConcepts	boolean	false	Retrieve transitive broader top concepts, default = false
useTypes	boolean	false	Retrieve custom types for concepts, default = false

Attribute	Type	Required	Comment
property	String	false	Property
value	String	false	Value

{
  "property" : "https://semantic-web.com/api/property#6376",
  "value" : "some value"
}

Attribute	Type	Required	Comment
method	Method	false	Method used for Named Entity Extraction. (default: MAXIMUM_ENTROPY) RULE_BASED \| MAXIMUM_ENTROPY
type	String	false	Type of Named Entity Model. Pre-defined models for MAXIMUM_ENTROPY: person, organization, location

{
  "method" : "RULE_BASED",
  "type" : "https://semantic-web.com/api/type#20383"
}

Attribute	Type	Required
field	Field	false
name	String	false
offset	int	false
signature	String	false
type	Class	false
unshared	boolean	false

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