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📝 To add notes 🏷️ To label data
to annotate

to annotate

2 4.9
Add labels to digital files like images or audio so computers can learn from them
  • verb
  • /ˈænəˌteɪt/
  • Specialized
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  • In machine learning, you need to annotate your training data carefully for best results.
  • annotating task
  • annotating group

And what you can then do in active learning is you, you ask the human to annotate the data that it's not sure about.

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Examples

  • And what you can then do in active learning is you, you ask the human to annotate the data that it's not sure about.

    Computerphile

  • The human contributes to a learning model by helping annotate some data.

  • Automated gene search algorithms are used to annotate a specific genome sequence.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Investigators responsible for annotating genomes have come up with their own working definition.

    Academic text (2009)

  • All of the novel genes are functionally annotated in other tumor types.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Each record is annotated with at least one DDC classification number that provides subject mapping of the corpus.

    Academic text (2014)

  • We evaluated the choice of sequence similarity thresholds for annotating metagenomic data.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Researchers often annotate images with labels to improve the accuracy of the model.

  • To help the algorithm learn, we must annotate the text data with relevant tags.

Synonyms

to label
vsto annotate
92 1.0

To attach a tag to something to show what it is

is used specifically to add metadata for model training and evaluation
to tag
vsto annotate
  • Texting
44 2.4

To attach a label to something to show who or what it is

is mainly about adding metadata for machine learning model use

How Detailed

to annotate
  • Specialized
2 4.9
to label
213 2.2

Surface Forms

annotate infinitive
annotated past
annotated past participle
annotating present participle
annotates third person singular

Morphology

annotate = notate (transparent) = an + note + ate

The technical computing sense is an extension of the basic meaning 'to add notes/labels'; the derivation from 'note'/'notate' is still predictable.

Etymology

In computing, annotate keeps the same idea: it is like adding a 'note' or label to an image, audio clip, or piece of text. The root nota meaning 'note' helps you remember that annotating data is marking it so a computer can learn from it.