Annotation NLP; CV; Data Engineering
noun
Definition: The process of adding labels, tags, metadata, or explanatory notes to data (e.g., text, images, audio) so that it can be used for training, evaluation, or analysis [Google ML Glossary; Cambridge Dictionary].
Example in context: “In the sentence shown above, an annotation is considered an agreement when the two annotators tagged the same tokens ‘carcinoma ductal infiltrante’.” [Solarte-Pabón et al. 2023]
Synonym: data labeling, data annotation
Related terms: labeling, tagging, markup