Human Annotator
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A Human Annotator is a human worker in the role of performing a manual annotation task.
- Context:
- They can (often) follow an Annotation Guideline.
- They can range from being a Physical Artifact Human Annotator to being an Data Item Human Annotator.
- They can range from being a Novice Human Annotator to being an Expert Human Annotator.
- They can be a Domain-Expert Annotator.
- They can work in fields such as linguistics, medicine, biology, social sciences, and engineering.
- They can collaborate with researchers and organizations to produce high-quality annotated datasets.
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- Example(s):
- a Human Text Annotator who labels parts of speech in sentences.
- a Human Image Annotator who identifies and marks objects in photographs.
- a Human Audio Annotator who transcribes spoken words in audio recordings.
- a Human Video Annotator who marks events or objects in video footage.
- a Medical Annotator who labels regions of interest in medical images.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- an Automated Annotation System, which performs annotation tasks automatically without human intervention.
- See: Tagger, Labeler, Crowdsourcing Annotator, Annotation Tool.