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Annotating Texts
What is annotation.
Annotation can be:
- A systematic summary of the text that you create within the document
- A key tool for close reading that helps you uncover patterns, notice important words, and identify main points
- An active learning strategy that improves comprehension and retention of information
Why annotate?
- Isolate and organize important material
- Identify key concepts
- Monitor your learning as you read
- Make exam prep effective and streamlined
- Can be more efficient than creating a separate set of reading notes
How do you annotate?
Summarize key points in your own words.
- Use headers and words in bold to guide you
- Look for main ideas, arguments, and points of evidence
- Notice how the text organizes itself. Chronological order? Idea trees? etc.
Circle Key Concepts and Phrases
- What words would it be helpful to look-up at the end?
- What terms show up in lecture? When are different words used for similar concepts? Why?
Write Brief Comments and Questions in the Margins
- Be as specific or broad as you would like—use these questions to activate your thinking about the content
- See the guide on reading comprehension tips for some examples
Use Abbreviations and Symbols
- Try ? when you have a question or something you need to explore further
- Try ! When something is interesting, a connection, or otherwise worthy of note
- Try * For anything that you might use as an example or evidence when you use this information.
- Ask yourself what other system of symbols would make sense to you.
Highlight/Underline
- Highlight or underline, but mindfully. Check out the resource on strategic highlighting for tips on when and how to highlight.
Use Comment and Highlight Features Built into PDFs, Online/Digital Textbooks, or Other Apps and Browser Add-ons
- Are you using a pdf? Explore its highlight, edit, and comment functions to support your annotations
- Some browsers have add-ons or extensions that allow you to annotate web pages or web-based documents
- Does your digital or online textbook come with an annotation feature?
- Can your digital text be imported into a note-taking tool like OneNote, EverNote, or Google Keep? If so, you might be able to annotate texts in those apps
What are the most important takeaways?
- Annotation is about increasing your engagement with a text
- Increased engagement, where you think about and process the material then expand on your learning, is how you achieve mastery in a subject
- As you annotate a text, ask yourself: "How would I explain this to a friend?"
- Put things in your own words and draw connections to what you know and wonder
The table below demonstrates this process using a geography textbook excerpt (Press 2004):

A common concern about annotating texts: It takes time!
Yes, it can, but that time isn’t lost—it’s invested.
Spending the time to annotate on the front end does two important things:
- It saves you time later when you’re studying. Your annotated notes will help speed up exam prep, because you can review critical concepts quickly and efficiently.
- It increases the likelihood that you will retain the information after the course is completed. This is especially important when you are supplying the building blocks of your mind and future career.
One last tip: Try separating the reading and annotating processes! Quickly read through a section of the text first, then go back and annotate.
Works Consulted
Nist, S., & Holschuh, J. (2000). Active learning: strategies for college success. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 202-218.
Simpson, M., & Nist, S. (1990). Textbook annotation: An effective and efficient study strategy for college students. Journal of Reading, 34 : 122-129.
Press, F. (2004). Understanding earth (4th ed). New York: W.H. Freeman. 208-210.
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Annotating Texts
What is annotation.
Annotation can be:
- A systematic summary of the text that you create within the document
- A key tool for close reading that helps you uncover patterns, notice important words, and identify main points
- An active learning strategy that improves comprehension and retention of information
Why annotate?
- Isolate and organize important material
- Identify key concepts
- Monitor your learning as you read
- Make exam prep effective and streamlined
- Can be more efficient than creating a separate set of reading notes
How do you annotate?
Summarize key points in your own words .
- Use headers and words in bold to guide you
- Look for main ideas, arguments, and points of evidence
- Notice how the text organizes itself. Chronological order? Idea trees? Etc.
Circle key concepts and phrases
- What words would it be helpful to look-up at the end?
- What terms show up in lecture? When are different words used for similar concepts? Why?
Write brief comments and questions in the margins
- Be as specific or broad as you would like—use these questions to activate your thinking about the content
- See our handout on reading comprehension tips for some examples
Use abbreviations and symbols
- Try ? when you have a question or something you need to explore further
- Try ! When something is interesting, a connection, or otherwise worthy of note
- Try * For anything that you might use as an example or evidence when you use this information.
- Ask yourself what other system of symbols would make sense to you.
Highlight/underline
- Highlight or underline, but mindfully. Check out our resource on strategic highlighting for tips on when and how to highlight.
Use comment and highlight features built into pdfs, online/digital textbooks, or other apps and browser add-ons
- Are you using a pdf? Explore its highlight, edit, and comment functions to support your annotations
- Some browsers have add-ons or extensions that allow you to annotate web pages or web-based documents
- Does your digital or online textbook come with an annotation feature?
- Can your digital text be imported into a note-taking tool like OneNote, EverNote, or Google Keep? If so, you might be able to annotate texts in those apps
What are the most important takeaways?
- Annotation is about increasing your engagement with a text
- Increased engagement, where you think about and process the material then expand on your learning, is how you achieve mastery in a subject
- As you annotate a text, ask yourself: how would I explain this to a friend?
- Put things in your own words and draw connections to what you know and wonder
The table below demonstrates this process using a geography textbook excerpt (Press 2004):

A common concern about annotating texts: It takes time!
Yes, it can, but that time isn’t lost—it’s invested.
Spending the time to annotate on the front end does two important things:
- It saves you time later when you’re studying. Your annotated notes will help speed up exam prep, because you can review critical concepts quickly and efficiently.
- It increases the likelihood that you will retain the information after the course is completed. This is especially important when you are supplying the building blocks of your mind and future career.
One last tip: Try separating the reading and annotating processes! Quickly read through a section of the text first, then go back and annotate.
Works consulted:
Nist, S., & Holschuh, J. (2000). Active learning: strategies for college success. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 202-218.
Simpson, M., & Nist, S. (1990). Textbook annotation: An effective and efficient study strategy for college students. Journal of Reading, 34: 122-129.
Press, F. (2004). Understanding earth (4th ed). New York: W.H. Freeman. 208-210.

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What is text annotation? Five different types of annotations

Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the biggest fields of AI development. Numerous NLP solutions like chatbots , automatic speech recognition and sentiment analysis programs improve efficiency and productivity in countless businesses around the world. Recent breakthroughs in NLP have even shown potential to help the speech impaired communicate freely with automatic speech recognition devices and the people around them. However, none of these amazing technologies would be possible without text annotation and the companies that provide these annotation services.
To train NLP algorithms , large annotated text datasets are required and every project has different requirements. For developers looking to build text datasets, here is a brief introduction to five common types of text annotation.
1. Entity annotation
Entity annotation is one of the most important processes in the generation of chatbot training datasets and other NLP training data. It is the act of locating, extracting and tagging entities in text. Types of entity annotation include:
- Named entity recognition (NER): The annotation of entities with proper names.
- Keyphrase tagging: The location and labeling of keywords or keyphrases in text data.
- Part-of-speech (POS) tagging: The discernment and annotation of the functional elements of speech (adjectives, nouns, adverbs, verbs, etc.).
Entity annotation teaches NLP models how to identify parts of speech, named entities and keyphrases within a text. In this task, annotators read the text thoroughly, locate the target entities, highlight them on the annotation platform and choose from a predetermined list of labels. To help NLP models learn about named entities further, entity annotation is often paired with entity linking.
2. Entity linking
Whereas entity annotation is the location and annotation of certain entities within a text, entity linking is the process of connecting those entities to larger repositories of data about them. Types of entity linking include:
- End-to-end entity linking: The joint process of first analyzing and annotating entities within a text (named entity recognition) and engaging in entity disambiguation.
- Entity disambiguation: The process of linking named entities to knowledge databases about them.
Entity linking is used to both improve search functions and user experience. Annotators are tasked with linking labeled entities within a text to a URL that contains more information about the entity.
3. Text classification
Also known as text categorization or document classification, text classification tasks annotators with reading a body of text or short lines of text. Annotators must analyze the content, discern the subject, intent and sentiment within it and classify it based on a predetermined list of categories. Whereas entity annotation is the labeling of individual words or phrases, text classification is the process of annotating of an entire body or line of text with a single label. Related text annotation types include:
- Document classification: The classification of documents used to help with the sorting and recall of text-based content.
- Product categorization: Crucial for eCommerce sites, product categorization is the sorting of products or services into intuitive classes and categories to help improve search relevance and user experience. Sometimes annotators are shown product descriptions, product images or both. The annotators would then choose from a list of departments or categories that the client has provided.
- Sentiment annotation: The classification of text based on the emotion, opinion or sentiment within the text.
Because text classification is a broad category, various annotation types like product categorization or sentiment annotation are technically just specialized forms of text classification.
4. Sentiment annotation
Emotional intelligence is one of the most difficult fields of machine learning. Sometimes it is difficult even for humans to guess the true emotion behind a text message or email. It is exponentially more difficult for a machine to determine connotations hidden in texts that use sarcasm, wit or other casual forms of communication. To help machine learning models understand the sentiment within text, the models are trained with sentiment-annotated text data.
More broadly referred to as sentiment analysis or opinion mining, sentiment annotation is the labeling of emotion, opinion, or sentiment inherent within a body of text. Annotators are given texts to analyze and must choose which label best represent the emotion or opinion within the text. A simple example would be the analysis of customer reviews. Annotators would read the reviews and label them as positive, neutral or negative.
When built correctly with accurate training data, a strong sentiment analysis model can accurately detect the sentiment in user reviews, social media posts and more. The sentiment analysis model would then allow businesses to track public opinion about their products, allowing the companies to develop future strategies or alter current strategies accordingly.
5. Linguistic annotation
Also referred to as corpus annotation, linguistic annotation simply describes the process of tagging language data in text or audio recordings. With linguistic annotation, annotators are tasked with identifying and flagging grammatical, semantic or phonetic elements in the text or audio data. Types of linguistic annotation include:
- Discourse annotation: The linking of anaphors and cataphors to their antecedent or postcedent subjects. Ex: James broke the chair. He felt really bad about it.
- Part-of-speech (POS) tagging: The annotation of the different function words within a text.
- Phonetic annotation: The labeling of intonation, stress and natural pauses in speech.
- Semantic annotation: The annotation of word definitions.
Linguistic annotation is used to create AI training datasets for a variety of NLP solutions such as chatbots, virtual assistants, search engines, machine translation and more. These are just five types of text annotation commonly used in machine learning today. To read more about these five types of text annotation, please see our AI Data Solutions pages.
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Annotating a Text: How to Annotate Readings
Posted: December 02, 2021 | Author: Savannah Byers | Read Time: 5 minutes

Annotation may seem overwhelming at first, but there is no need to fear! Annotating a text is personal to you and the task at hand. Creating annotations might look like highlighting sections of text or creating a guide with a key. What works for one person might not work for another, so try out multiple methods for annotation and find what works best for you.
How to Annotate Academic Resources
Annotating an article.
Professors across all content areas will assign academic, peer-reviewed articles throughout your degree program. These articles may appear dense at first, but they will become easier to read as you advance through your program and learn how to annotate them. One of the best ways to get more out of an academic article is to read them with a critical eye: ask questions and search for answers.
Here are a few more tips for annotating an article:
- Locate and highlight the thesis statement. Use the thesis statement to guide your reading as you ask questions and search for answers.
- Make note of pieces of text that either support or contradict the thesis. These notes can help you form an opinion and even an argument about the article, aiding with potential class discussions and writing assignments.
- Note any bias or statements that aren’t backed with research that you discover in the article.
- This is where your critical eye will come in handy as you read the article. Discovering bias or unbacked statements can also help you form an argument and can create great questions to ask your professor in class or during office hours .
- Write down your thoughts, reactions, questions, etc. in the margins as you read. Writing down these things can help you understand your process as a reader, the writer’s process, and the subject matter of the article. Additionally, your raw thoughts can create great topics for discussion and debate in class.
Annotating a Literary Text
The purpose of annotating a literary text, such as a novel or a short story, is often to note and gather relevant information for discussions and writing assignments. Allowing central themes and critical moments in the text to guide you as you annotate is a great way to get started.
Here are a few more tips for annotating a literary text:
- Make notes of your thoughts and reactions to the text in the margins. Noting your thoughts as you read can help you better understand the shape of the text overall upon later review.
- Highlight and/or underline specific lines and words that stand out to you. These lines might stand out to you because of the writing and language or because of the line’s contribution to the plot or a larger theme in the text. Highlighting such instances in the text is a great way to cite evidence in a discussion or a writing assignment.
- Mark moments in the text in which you see writing devices, figurative language, and other writing mechanics being employed. Often the technique used to write a text contributes to a larger theme or plot point.
- Write down questions in the margins of the text as you read. Your questions, general or existential, can help propel insightful discussions, generate content for writing assignments, and help you stand out in class.
Annotating a Textbook Chapter
The purpose of annotating a textbook chapter is usually to be able to quickly reference and/or find important information at a later time. Knowing what is important to highlight or underline is often the tricky part of annotating a textbook chapter because of the existing formatting.
Here are a few more tips for annotating a textbook chapter:
- Write down your questions as you go, either in the textbook or on a separate piece of paper.
- Asking questions as you go can help you read the text more closely and focus in on smaller details that will likely answer your questions. Additionally, the questions that don’t get answered in the reading would be a great thing to ask your professor about during office hours .
- Noting the headings and subheadings, especially in STEM textbooks, is a great way to read with more intention. Focus on the information promised in the headings as you read to make sure you are comprehending what you should.
- Highlight vocabulary words. If the vocabulary words aren’t defined in the textbook, define them in the margin. If you want to go the extra mile, make flashcards for the vocabulary words, noting the page number the words appear in the textbook. Studying goes beyond the assigned readings.
- Write down any connections you make between what you read in the textbook and what you cover in class and/or lab. Making these connections in the margins is a great way to cross-reference information when you go back to study for a quiz or test.
Get the most out of your degree by showing up and getting everything you can out of every class. Prepare for class by not only completing the readings, but by completing the readings with intent and purpose. Annotating a text, asking questions, and searching for answers are key to being a good student.
Campus resources for homework and academic help include the Tutoring Center , the Writing Center , and the Speech and Presentation Center .
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As students, researchers, and self-learners, we understand the power of reading and taking smart notes . But what happens when we combine those together? This is where annotating text comes in.
Annotated text is a written piece that includes additional notes and commentary from the reader. These notes can be about anything from the author's style and tone to the main themes of the work. By providing context and personal reactions, annotations can turn a dry text into a lively conversation.
Creating text annotations during close readings can help you follow the author's argument or thesis and make it easier to find critical points and supporting evidence. Plus, annotating your own texts in your own words helps you to better understand and remember what you read.
This guide will take a closer look at annotating text, discuss why it's useful, and how you can apply a few helpful strategies to develop your annotating system.
What does annotating text mean?

Text annotation refers to adding notes, highlights, or comments to a text. This can be done using a physical copy in textbooks or printable texts. Or you can annotate digitally through an online document or e-reader.
Generally speaking, annotating text allows readers to interact with the content on a deeper level, engaging with the material in a way that goes beyond simply reading it. There are different levels of annotation, but all annotations should aim to do one or more of the following:
- Summarize the key points of the text
- Identify evidence or important examples
- Make connections to other texts or ideas
- Think critically about the author's argument
- Make predictions about what might happen next
When done effectively, annotation can significantly improve your understanding of a text and your ability to remember what you have read.
What are the benefits of annotation?
There are many reasons why someone might wish to annotate a document. It's commonly used as a study strategy and is often taught in English Language Arts (ELA) classes. Students are taught how to annotate texts during close readings to identify key points, evidence, and main ideas.
In addition, this reading strategy is also used by those who are researching for self-learning or professional growth. Annotating texts can help you keep track of what you’ve read and identify the parts most relevant to your needs. Even reading for pleasure can benefit from annotation, as it allows you to keep track of things you might want to remember or add to your personal knowledge management system .
Annotating has many benefits, regardless of your level of expertise. When you annotate, you're actively engaging with the text, which can help you better understand and learn new things . Additionally, annotating can save you time by allowing you to identify the most essential points of a text before starting a close reading or in-depth analysis.
There are few studies directly on annotation, but the body of research is growing. In one 2022 study, specific annotation strategies increased student comprehension , engagement, and academic achievement. Students who annotated read slower, which helped them break down texts and visualize key points. This helped students focus, think critically , and discuss complex content.
Annotation can also be helpful because it:
- Allows you to quickly refer back to important points in the text without rereading the entire thing
- Helps you to make connections between different texts and ideas
- Serves as a study aid when preparing for exams or writing essays
- Identifies gaps in your understanding so that you can go back and fill them in
The process of annotating text can make your reading experience more fruitful. Adding comments, questions, and associations directly to the text makes the reading process more active and enjoyable.
How do you annotate text?

There are many different ways to annotate while reading. The traditional method of annotating uses highlighters, markers, and pens to underline, highlight, and write notes in paper books. Modern methods have now gone digital with apps and software. You can annotate on many note-taking apps, as well as online documents like Google Docs.
While there are documented benefits of handwritten notes, recent research shows that digital methods are effective as well. Among college students in an introductory college writing course, those with more highlighting on digital texts correlated with better reading comprehension than those with more highlighted sections on paper.
No matter what method you choose, the goal is always to make your reading experience more active, engaging, and productive. To do so, the process can be broken down into three simple steps:
- Do the first read-through without annotating to get a general understanding of the material.
- Reread the text and annotate key points, evidence, and main ideas.
- Review your annotations to deepen your understanding of the text.
Of course, there are different levels of annotation, and you may only need to do some of the three steps. For example, if you're reading for pleasure, you might only annotate key points and passages that strike you as interesting or important. Alternatively, if you're trying to simplify complex information in a detailed text, you might annotate more extensively.
The type of annotation you choose depends on your goals and preferences. The key is to create a plan that works for you and stick with it.
Annotation strategies to try
When annotating text, you can use a variety of strategies. The best method for you will depend on the text itself, your reason for reading, and your personal preferences. Start with one of these common strategies if you don't know where to begin.
- Questioning: As you read, note any questions that come to mind as you engage in critical thinking . These could be questions about the author's argument, the evidence they use, or the implications of their ideas.
- Summarizing: Write a brief summary of the main points after each section or chapter. This is a great way to check your understanding, help you process information , and identify essential information to reference later.
- Paraphrasing: In addition to (or instead of) summaries, try paraphrasing key points in your own words. This will help you better understand the material and make it easier to reference later.
- Connecting: Look for connections between different parts of the text or other ideas as you read. These could be things like similarities, contrasts, or implications. Make a note of these connections so that you can easily reference them later.
- Visualizing: Sometimes, it can be helpful to annotate text visually by drawing pictures or taking visual notes . This can be especially helpful when trying to make connections between different ideas.
- Responding: Another way to annotate is to jot down your thoughts and reactions as you read. This can be a great way to personally engage with the material and identify any areas you need clarification on.
Combining the three-step annotation process with one or more strategies can create a customized, powerful reading experience tailored to your specific needs.

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7 tips for effective annotations

Once you've gotten the hang of the annotating process and know which strategies you'd like to use, there are a few general tips you can follow to make the annotation process even more effective.
1. Read with a purpose. Before you start annotating, take a moment to consider what you're hoping to get out of the text. Do you want to gain a general overview? Are you looking for specific information? Once you know what you're looking for, you can tailor your annotations accordingly.
2. Be concise. When annotating text, keep it brief and focus on the most important points. Otherwise, you risk annotating too much, which can feel a bit overwhelming, like having too many tabs open . Limit yourself to just a few annotations per page until you get a feel for what works for you.
3. Use abbreviations and symbols. You can use abbreviations and symbols to save time and space when annotating digitally. If annotating on paper, you can use similar abbreviations or symbols or write in the margins. For example, you might use ampersands, plus signs, or question marks.
4. Highlight or underline key points. Use highlighting or underlining to draw attention to significant passages in the text. This can be especially helpful when reviewing a text for an exam or essay. Try using different colors for each read-through or to signify different meanings.
5. Be specific. Vague annotations aren't very helpful. Make sure your note-taking is clear and straightforward so you can easily refer to them later. This may mean including specific inferences, key points, or questions in your annotations.
6. Connect ideas. When reading, you'll likely encounter ideas that connect to things you already know. When these connections occur, make a note of them. Use symbols or even sticky notes to connect ideas across pages. Annotating this way can help you see the text in a new light and make connections that you might not have otherwise considered.
7. Write in your own words. When annotating, copying what the author says verbatim can be tempting. However, it's more helpful to write, summarize or paraphrase in your own words. This will force you to engage your information processing system and gain a deeper understanding.
These tips can help you annotate more effectively and get the most out of your reading. However, it’s important to remember that, just like self-learning , there is no one "right" way to annotate. The process is meant to enrich your reading comprehension and deepen your understanding, which is highly individual. Most importantly, your annotating system should be helpful and meaningful for you.
Engage your learning like never before by learning how to annotate text
Learning to effectively annotate text is a powerful tool that can improve your reading, self-learning , and study strategies. Using an annotating system that includes text annotations and note-taking during close reading helps you actively engage with the text, leading to a deeper understanding of the material.
Try out different annotation strategies and find what works best for you. With practice, annotating will become second nature and you'll reap all the benefits this powerful tool offers.
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Global financial services firm required the annotation of technical financial documents to train its AI platform to conduct risk assessments for investment portfolios.
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Leading travel aggregator and booking engine required highly accurate datasets for a booking assistant bot that operates in multiple languages.
To reach the seamless performance expected by the travel aggregator and its customers, the chatbot needed to be trained for many utterances per intent in English, Chinese, and French. To achieve this, the Innodata team annotated incoming chatbot messages for any mention of specific hotels, occurrences of locations (including cities, regions, districts, and addresses), and categorized the intent of the utterances based on their subjective interpretation of the message. This process of annotating utterances and assigning labels from a taxonomy allowed the chatbot to understand customer intent from incoming messaging and provide relevant and accurate responses. To ensure the accuracy and quality of the annotations, the Innodata team utilized a double-blind pass process, in which two different annotators provide annotations and an adjudicator provides a judgement on any discrepancies between the annotations.
The travel aggregator received highly accurate annotated and labeled datasets which enabled the booking assistant AI chatbot to appropriately respond to customer messages and inquiries with relevant information in multiple languages improving the net promoter score.

Annotation for Life Science Data Provider’s Drug Search & Discovery
A leading abstract and indexing scientific research discovery solution required annotated data to enhance its platform for drug search/discovery and research funding.
Life Science Data Provider Acquires Right Annotated Data for Drug Search & Discovery
A leading abstract and indexing scientific research discovery solution required annotated data to enhance its platform to enable predictive and prescriptive analytics for drug discovery and research funding.
To begin the process of creating high-quality labeled scientific datasets, Innodata's annotation experts set up their platform to automate the process of entity extraction to pull out relevant keywords and references from the source documents. Innodata's experts then annotated millions of pages of scientific data, research, and articles. They created structured XML datasets that could be used to train the AI platform in predictive and prescriptive analytics.
With these datasets, the research discovery solution was able to provide more insight and give its users actionable intelligence. This intelligence is then used by the customer to research fund attribution, drive investments of new drug development, and avoid patent infringement.
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Annotating text means adding meta-data to text, like semantics or sentiments. A good way for the AI to learn and understand nuances is through human annotations.
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Annotating a text, or marking the pages with notes, is an excellent, if not essential, way to make the most out of the reading you do for college courses. Annotations make it easy to find important information quickly when you look back and review a text. They help you familiarize yourself with both the content and organization of what you read. They provide a way to begin engaging with ideas and issues directly through comments, questions, associations, or other reactions that occur to you as you read. In all these ways, annotating a text makes the reading process an active one, not just background for writing assignments, but an integral first step in the writing process.
A well-annotated text will accomplish all of the following:
- clearly identify where in the text important ideas and information are located
- express the main ideas of a text
- trace the development of ideas/arguments throughout a text
- introduce a few of the reader’s thoughts and reactions
Ideally, you should read a text through once before making major annotations. You may just want to circle unfamiliar vocabulary or concepts. This way, you will have a clearer idea about where major ideas and important information are in the text, and your annotating will be more efficient.
A brief description and discussion of four ways of annotating a text— highlighting/underlining, paraphrase/summary of main ideas, descriptive outline, and comments/responses —and a sample annotated text follow:
HIGHLIGHTING/UNDERLINING
Highlighting or underlining key words and phrases or major ideas is the most common form of annotating texts. Many people use this method to make it easier to review material, especially for exams. Highlighting is also a good way of picking out specific language within a text that you may want to cite or quote in a piece of writing. However, over-reliance on highlighting is unwise for two reasons. First, there is a tendency to highlight more information than necessary, especially when done on a first reading. Second, highlighting is the least active form of annotating. Instead of being a way to begin thinking and interacting with ideas in texts, highlighting can become a postponement of that process.
On the other hand, highlighting is a useful way of marking parts of a text that you want to make notes about. And it’s a good idea to highlight the words or phrases of a text that are referred to by your other annotations.
PARAPHRASE/SUMMARY OF MAIN IDEAS
Going beyond locating important ideas to being able to capture their meaning through paraphrase is a way of solidifying your understanding of these ideas. It’s also excellent preparation for any writing you may have to do based on your reading. A series of brief notes in the margins beside important ideas gives you a handy summary right on the pages of the text itself, and if you can take the substance of a sentence or paragraph and condense it into a few words, you should have little trouble clearly demonstrating your understanding of the ideas in question in your own writing.
DESCRIPTIVE OUTLINE
A descriptive outline shows the organization of a piece of writing, breaking it down to show where ideas are introduced and where they are developed. A descriptive outline allows you to see not only where the main ideas are but also where the details, facts, explanations, and other kinds of support for those ideas are located.
A descriptive outline will focus on the function of individual paragraphs or sections within a text. These functions might include any of the following:
- summarizing a topic/argument/etc.
- introducing an idea
- adding explanation
- giving examples
- providing factual evidence
- expanding or limiting the idea
- considering an opposing view
- dismissing a contrary view
- creating a transition
- stating a conclusion
This list is hardly exhaustive and it’s important to recognize that several of these functions may be repeated within a text, particularly ones that contain more than one major idea.
Making a descriptive outline allows you to follow the construction of the writer’s argument and/or the process of his/her thinking. It helps identify which parts of the text work together and how they do so.
COMMENTS/RESPONSES
You can use annotation to go beyond understanding a text’s meaning and organization by noting your reactions—agreement/disagreement, questions, related personal experience, connection to ideas from other texts, class discussions, etc. This is an excellent way to begin formulating your own ideas for writing assignments based on the text or on any of the ideas it contains.

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Even with all the recent advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, we can’t escape the irony of the information age. In order for humans to rely on machines, machines need humans first to teach them. So if you're doing any type of supervised learning in your natural language processing pipeline, and you most likely are, data annotation has played a role in your work. Maybe you were lucky enough to have a large pre-annotated text corpus. And You didn't need to do all the text annotation for training yourself. But if you want to know how well it's doing in production, you'll have to annotate text at some point.
What Is Text Annotation?
Text annotation is simply reading natural language data and adding some additional information about it, in a machine-readable format. This additional information can be used to train machine learning models and to evaluate how well they perform.
Let’s say you have this piece of text in your corpus: “I am going to order some brownies for tomorrow”

You might want to identify that brownies are a food item and/or that tomorrow is the delivery time. Then use that piece of information to ensure that you have some brownies for them and that you can deliver them tomorrow.

Or maybe your task is on a larger scale. So you might want to annotate that the whole sentence has the intent of placing an order.
Tips To Make Your Text Annotation Process Better

The first thing you can do to make the life of your annotators and developers simple is to keep the labels simple and descriptive. food_item and time_of_delivery are good, straightforward labels that describe what you’re annotating. But labels like intent_1 , intent_1_ver2 , and unnecessary acronyms make it harder to quickly apply and check labels.
Besides that, it’s unlikely that one person is going to be annotating everything on their own. Usually, there is a team of people that need to agree on what the labels mean. I recommend that you define your labels in a central shared location and keep this information up to date. So if a new label is added, or if the meaning of a label changes, everyone has easy access to the updates.
Checking The Quality Of Your Text Annotations
One often overlooked thing is checking the quality of your annotations. Well, how does one even do that? You could go through all of the text again, but that’s inefficient.
One handy technique is to use a flag to denote confusion or uncertainty about an annotation. This enables annotators that are unsure about an annotation to flag it, allowing it to be double-checked later.
Another helpful method is to have some annotators look at the same data, and compare their annotations. You could use a measure of inter-rater reliability like Cohen's kappa , Scott's Pi , or Fleiss's kappa for this. Or you could create a confusion matrix.

In the example above, annotator 1's labels are in the columns and annotator 2's labels are in the rows. You can see that they both agree on all the things labeled order_time , and they mostly agree on the food_item . But there seems to be a lot of confusion about where the label food_order should be applied.
This might be a sign that the label needs more clarification about its meaning, or that it needs to be slit into separate labels. Or maybe it should be removed completely.
Top Text Annotation Tools
Brat (browser-based rapid annotation tool).
brat is a free, browser-based online annotation tool for collaborative text annotation. It has a rich set of features such as integration with external resources including Wikipedia, support for automatic text annotation tools, and an integrated annotation comparison. The configurations for a project-specific labeling scheme is defined via .conf files , which are just plain text files.
brat is more suited to annotating expressions and relationships between them, as annotating longer text spans like paragraphs is really inconvenient (the pop-up menu becomes larger than the screen). It only accepts text files as input documents, and the text file is not presented in the original formatting in the UI. So it is not suitable for labeling structured documents like PDFs.
It comes with detailed install instructions and can be set up in a few lines of code.
To set up the standalone version, just clone the GitHub repository :
Navigate into the directory and run the installation script:
You’ll be prompted for information like username, password, and admin contact email. Once you have filled in that information, you can launch brat:
You will then be able to access brat from the address printed in the terminal.
doccano is an open-source, browser-based annotation tool solely for text files. It has a more modern, attractive UI, and all the configuration is done in the web UI. But doccano is less adaptable than brat. It does not have support for labeling relationships between words and nested classifications, however, most models and use cases don’t need these anyway.
You can write and save annotation guidelines in the app itself and use keyboard shortcuts to apply an annotation. It also creates a basic diagrammatic overview of the labeling stats. All this makes doccano more beginner, and in general user, friendly. It does support multiple users, but there are no extra features for collaborative annotation.
The setup process is also quite simple, just install doccano from PyPI:
After installation, run the following commands:
In another terminal, run the following command:
And go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser.
LightTag is another browser-based text labeling tool, but it isn’t entirely free. It has a free-for-all version with 5,000 annotations a month for its basic functionalities. You just need to create an account to start annotating.
The LightTag platform has its own AI model that learns from the previous labeling and makes annotation suggestions. For a fee, the platform also automates the work of managing a project. It assigns tasks to annotators, and ensures there is enough overlap and duplication to keep accuracy and consistency high.
What really makes LightTag stand out, in my opinion, is its data quality control features. It automatically generates precision and recall reports of your annotators, and has a dedicated review page that enables you to visually review your teams' annotations. LightTag also detects conflicts and allows you to auto-accept by majority or unanimous vote.
You can also load your production model’s predictions into LightTag and review them to detect data drift and monitor your production performance. It was recently acquired by Primer.ai , so you get access to their NLP platform with the subscriptions as well.
TagEditor is a standalone desktop application that enables you to quickly annotate text with the help of the spaCy library. It does not require any installations. You just need to download and extract the TagEditor.7z file from their GitHub repo , and run TagEditor.exe . Yes, it is limited to Windows 😬
With TagEditor you can annotate dependencies, parts of speech, named entities, text categories, and coreference resolution, create your customized annotated data or create a training dataset in .json or .spacy formats for training with spaCy library or PyTorch. If you're working with spaCy on Windows, TagEditor covers all bases.
tagtog is a user-friendly web-based text annotation tool. Similar to LigthTag, you don’t need to install anything because it runs on the cloud. You just have to set up a new account and create a project. But if you need to run it in a private cloud environment, you can use their Docker image.
It provides free features to cover manual annotation, train your own model with Webhooks, and a bunch of pre-annotated public datasets. tagtog accelerates manual annotation by automatically recognizing and annotating words you've labeled once.
You can upload files in the supported format , such as .csv , .xml , .html , or simply insert plain text.
There is a subscription fee for the more advanced features like automatic annotation, native PDF annotations, and customer support. tagtog also enables you to import annotated data from your own trained models. You can then review it in the annotation editor and make the necessary modifications. Finally, download the reviewed documents using their API and re-train your model. Check out the official tutorials for complete examples.
The folks at Explosion.ai (the creators of spaCy ) have their own annotation tool called Prodigy . It is a scriptable annotation tool that enables you to leverage transfer learning to train production-quality models with very few examples. The creators say that it's "so efficient that data scientists can do the annotation themselves." It does not have a free offering, but you can check out its live demo .
The active learning aspect of this annotation tool means that you only have to annotate examples the model doesn’t already know the answer to, considerably speeding up the annotation process. You can choose from . jsonl , . json , and . txt formats for exporting your files.
To start annotating, you need to get a license key , and install Prodigy from PyPI:
And if you work with JupyterLab, you can install the jupyterlab-prodigy extension.
The extension enables you to execute recipe commands in notebook cells and opens the annotation UI in a JupyterLab tab, so you don’t need to leave your notebook to annotate data.
The Python library includes a range of pre-built workflows and command-line commands for various tasks, and well-documented components for implementing your own workflow scripts. Your scripts can specify how the data is loaded and saved, change which questions are asked in the annotation interface, and can even define custom HTML and JavaScript to change the behavior of the front-end.
Prodigy is not limited to text, it enables you to annotate images, videos, and audio. It also has an easy-to-use randomized A/B testing feature that you can use to evaluate models for tasks like machine translation, image captioning, image generation, dialogue generation, etc.
If you can't spend any money, and your annotation task is something simple go with doccano. And if you need to label relationships go with TagEditor, but if you want more control and customization you can use brat.
On the paid tools front, Prodigy is the best option if you are willing to write some code to create data quality reports and manage annotation conflicts. While Prodigy does look like a pricey option upfront, it is worth noting that it is a one-time fee for a lifetime license with one year of updates. On the other hand, tagtog and LightTag are subscription services. But if you want a more ready out-of-the-box solution, you can go with tagtog or LightTag.

annotation format ne demek?
- Ek Açıklama Biçimi
- Eklenmiş, katılmış
- Bir şeyin eksiğini tamamlamak için ona katılan parça.
- Bir gazete veya derginin günlük yayımından ayrı ve ücretsiz olarak verdiği parça, ilave.
- Sonradan katılan, dikilen, yapıştırılan parçanın belli olan yeri.
- İki borunun birbirine birleştirildiği yer.
- Kelime türetmek veya kelimenin görevini belirtmek için kullanılan şekil verici ses veya sesler, lahika.
- Sözcük türetmek veya sözcüğün görevini belirtmek için kullanılan biçim verici ses ya da sesler: Evci (ev-ci) , evcil (ev-cil) , evli (ev-li) , ev-lenmek (ev-le-n-mek) eve (ev-e) , evden fev-den) , evde (ev-de) , evim (ev-im) vb.
- Elektronik postanın sonuna eklenerek yollanan dosya/dosyalar.
- Bk. ek yeri
- Bir yapıttaki bilgiyi tamamlamak, dahaeksiksiz olmasını sağlamak amacıyle sonradan çıkarılan kitap.
annotation edit
- Eklenti Düzenle
annotation mark
- Ek Açıklama ımi
- Film veya fotoğrafta boyutlar.
- Çangır çungur.
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Türetilmiş Kelimeler (bis)
Edit and format annotation text

- In some cases, annotation created in a previous release of ArcGIS Pro can’t be edited until you upgrade the annotation dataset with the Upgrade Dataset geoprocessing tool.
- The annotation selection tool selects only annotation features and excludes other feature types from a selection.
- To prevent unintended rotation or scaling, uncheck Enable rotate and resize .
- Edit annotation text
To edit text, select the annotation feature, double-click inside the selection box, and type the new text.
Confirm that the feature layer you are editing is editable, the coordinate system assigned to the active map is suitable for the type of edits you're performing, and snapping is configured to help you work efficiently and accurately.

The Modify Features pane appears.
To find the tool, expand Alignment , or type Anno in the Search text box.
- Optionally, uncheck the Enable rotate and resize check box to prevent unintended rotation or scaling.

The text is enclosed in a selection box.

- To select parts of the text, click and drag the pointer across the characters.
- To delete a character, click between it and the next character and press Backspace .
- Type the new text.

- Format annotation text
To format text, select the annotation feature, double-click inside the selection box, and click the corresponding buttons on the formatting toolbar to change the font type, style, or size of the text.
The text is enclosed in a selection box and the formatting toolbar appears at the bottom of the active map view.
To select parts of the text, drag the pointer across the characters you are formatting.

To move the toolbar, hover over an edge until the pointer changes to the move pointer, and drag the toolbar to a new location.
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Java’da Annotation Kavramı ve Avantajları
Bu işaret ile başlayan ifadeleri Java’da birçok kez görmüş ve ne olduğu hakkında fikriniz olmayabilir ya da sık sık kullanıp arka planında ne döndüğü hakkında hiç düşünmemiş olabilirsiniz. Bende zamanında bir süre bu şekilde kullanmıştım doğrusu. Bu yazımızda Java’da notasyonların (annotation) ne anlama geldiğini, nasıl tanımlandıklarını ve avantajlarına bakacağız.
Annotation yapısını çoğunlukla frameworkler, kütüphaneler, toollarda görürüz. Özellikle Java EE’de Annotation yapısını sık sık kullanırız ve birçok konuda bizi yükten kurtarır. Genellikle de ihtiyacımızı giderecek kadar kullanırız detayına bakmayız. Örneğin JUnit ile unit test yazarken methodun başına “@Test” yazarak o metodu test metodu haline getirebiliriz. Ancak kullanımı bilmek kadar, arka planda neler olduğunu bilmekte çok önemli.
Java’ya Annotation kavramı Java 5 ile gelmiştir. Java dilinde Annotation, bir veri hakkında bilgi barındıran veriyi sağlayan basit bir yapıdır. Bu sağladığı bilgiye de “metadata” denir. Teknik tanımına çok takılmayalım. Notasyonlar( Annotation) genellikle Java’da konfigürasyon amacıyla kullanılır. Ya da bir bileşene ek özellikle katar. Bu bileşenler sınıf, metod, değişkenler, paket ya da parametreler olabilir. Bunların hepsinde notasyonları kullanabiliriz. Java dilinde notasyonlar “@” işaretiyle başlarlar.
Annotationlar ile derleyiciye talimatlar verebiliriz. Örneğin başında ‘ @Deprecated ’ ile işaretlenmiş bir metodun kullanımı derleme zamanında uyarı verir. Bu metodun artık kullanımda olmadığı, yeni bir versiyonunun olduğunu bildirir. Bu örnekteki annotation, Java tarafından ön tanımlı bir annotationdır. Bunun gibi Java tarafından önceden tanımlı annotationlar bulunmaktadır. Bunlar dışında bizlerde kendimiz tanımlama yapabiliriz.
@Override — Superclass’dan bir metodu override etmek istediğimizde metodu bu annotation ile işaretleyerek derleyiciye bunu bildiririz. Bu sayede superclass’da metod silindiğinde ya da değiştiğinde derleyici bize bunu bildirecektir.
@SuppressWarnings — Derleyicinin uyarı vereceği durumlarda bu annotationın kullanımı ile derleyiciye o kod bloğu için uyarı vermemesi için talimat verebiliriz. Örneğin üstte bahsettiğimiz deprecated metod kullanımında derleyicinin bizi uyarmasını istemiyorsak kullanabiliriz. Bu annotation birkaç farklı parametre almakta. İstediğiniz durumu parametre olarak göndererek derleyicinin uyarı vermeyeceği durumu ayarlayabilirsiniz. Bunlardan bazıları “all, cast, deprecation, divzero, empty, unchecked, fallthrough, path, serial, finally, overrides”.
Üstte yazdığım 3 annotation bizim yazdığımız Java koduna uygulanmakta. Ayrıca “Meta Annotations” diye bir kavram var. Bunlar da annotationlara uygulanan ön tanımlı annotationlar olarak geçmekte. Yani annotation tanımlarken onları işaretlemek için kullanıyoruz.
@Retention — Bu annotation ile işaretlenmiş annotationın nasıl saklanacağını belirleriz. 3 tip saklama şekli vardır. SOURCE, CLASS ve RUNTIME. Varsayılan olarak CLASS’tır. Yani annotationın derleme zamanında sınıfa kaydedilmesini, fakat runtimeda erişilmesine gerek olmadığını ifade eder. SOURCE ise annotationın derleme zamanında yok sayılmasını sağlar. RUNTIME ise annotationın çalışma zamanında erişilebilirliğini sağlar. Bunlardan en çok kullanılanı RUNTIME ve CLASS’tır.
@Target — Tanımlanmış annotationın nereye uygulanacağını belirlemek için kullanılır. Örneğin @Target({ElementType.METHOD}) olarak işaretlenmiş bir annotation yalnızca metodlar için kullanılabilir. Bir sınıfın tanımlarken kullanılırsa hata alınır. Birden çok parametre ile kullanılabilir. @Target({ElementType.METHOD,ElementType.TYPE})
@Documented — Bir annotationı javadoc ile oluşturulan dokümantasyonlara dahil etmek için kullanılır.
Java ile ön tanımlı annotationları inceledik. Java 8 ile gelen önemli bir annotation daha var. Ona da baktıktan sonra kendi annotationlarımızı nasıl tanımlayabiliriz buna bakalım.
@FunctionalInterface — Bu annotation diğerlerinden farklı olarak, interface’leri işaretlemek için kullanılır. Bu annotation ile işaretlenmiş interface’ler tek bir metoda sahip olduğunu derleyiciye bildirmiş oluyoruz. Bu sayede Java 8 ile gelen Lambda expressionları kullanırken derleyicinin hangi metodu override edeceğini belirtiyoruz. Bir örnekle faydasını görelim.
Üstte JavaFX’de butona tıklama eventinin yakalanmasını görüyoruz. Gördüğünüz gibi kod gereksiz uzun. setOnAction metodunda bir anonymous class oluşturuyoruz ve handle metodunu override ediyoruz. Burada EventHandler bir interface ve içinde sadece handle metodu var. Java 8 ile gelen Lambda expressionlar ile bu kodu aşağıdaki gibi yazabiliyoruz.
Üstteki kodda lambda expression ile kullanım görüyoruz. Derleyici setOnAction metodunun hangi parametreyi aldığını biliyor ve o interface’e baktığında @FunctionalInterface ile işaretlendiğini görüyor ve içinde tek bir metod olduğunu biliyor ve kod bloğuna yazılan ifadeyi aynı handle metodu override edilmiş gibi davranıyor. Daha açıklayıcı olması için EventHandler’ın tanımına bakalım.
Java dilinde ön tanımlı annotationlara yeterince baktık. Yazı daha fazla uzamaması için kendimiz nasıl annotation tanımlaması yapabileceğimize ve nasıl kullanacağımıza bakalım.
Bir örnek üzerinden Annotation tanımlamasını göreceğiz. mkyong.com adresinde yer alan bir örneği aktaracağım ve basit bir unit test simülasyonu yapacağız.
Java’da kendi yazdığımız annotationları ‘@interface’ keywordü ile tanımlıyoruz. Bunu ‘interface’ ile karıştırmamalıyız. Burada Test adında bir annotation tanımladık ve içinde bir metadata tutuyoruz. Default olarakta ‘true’ değerine sahip.
TesterInfo adında yalnızca sınıf için kullanılabilecek bir annotation daha tanımladık. Bu annotation testi yazan hakkında metadatayı barındıracak.
Şimdi bu annotationları kullanan bir sınıf yazalım.
Şimdi de main metodumuzu tanımlayalım. Sınıfın nesnesinden kullanılan annotationlara nasıl erişileceğini görelim.
TestExample sınıfından bir nesne oluşturduk. Sınıfın içinde tanımlı metodlarda for each ile gezdik. Metodda bir annotation tanımlaması olup olmadığını kontrol ettik. Daha sonra tanımlıysa nesne için her bir metodu çağırdık. Burada annotation içindeki metadata true ise try-catch bloğuna girdi ve metodun dönüşüne göre testin ‘passed’ yada ‘failed’ olma durumlarını kontrol ettik. Enabled olmayanlar ise direk ‘ignored’ durumuna geçti. Tabiki bu örnek oldukça basit. Burada annotationların nasıl kolaylıkla metadata tutabileceğini görmüş olduk.
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