Data entry Data Engineering
noun phrase
Definition 1: The process of entering source data into an electronic system or database. Cambridge defines data entry as “the work or process of putting information into a computer database” [Cambridge Dictionary]
Example in context: “Language models have significantly enhanced the processing of such records, streamlining workflows and reducing manual data entry, thereby saving healthcare providers significant resources.” [Edin et al. 2024]
Definition 2: A single record, item, or unit of information in a dataset, table, or database; this sense is corpus-attested in NLP/ML writing, where data entry refers to an individual dataset instance rather than the process of entering data [Kruff, Tran 2023].
Example in context: “This, however, resulted in exponentially increasing the string size of each data entry, especially for long passage spoiler-types, making it unfeasible to utilize all features in a reasonable maximum length size when training the RoBERTa model.” [Kruff, Tran 2023]
Related terms: data input, data capture, manual input, data record, database record