annotator
annotator — noun
- annotatorsingular
- annotatorsplural
1. someone who puts brief notes in or beside a piece of writing to help readers und
someone who puts brief notes in or beside a piece of writing to help readers understand it.
Christopher asked the annotator to explain the old joke in the margin.
annotator + explain a note
At the library, Tariro thanked the annotator for notes on each difficult poem.
notes on + poem
The annotator added a short note beside Sana's letter from the war.
During class, Eli read the annotator's comment before starting the play.
- commentator
usually gives fuller explanation or opinion, not short notes beside a text
- editor
may change the text itself instead of only adding notes
- proofreader
mainly checks errors rather than adding explanatory comments
文法句型
an annotator of + text/document
the annotator's notes on + work/page
用法筆記
Often used for a person working on books, poems, letters, or historical documents. Distinguish from sense 2: sense 1 adds explanatory notes for human readers, while sense 2 adds labels to data for later analysis.
2. someone or a software tool that marks data with labels or extra information so p
someone or a software tool that marks data with labels or extra information so people or machines can use it.
Apinya works as an annotator, marking cars and signs in street photos.
work as an annotator
The annotator tagged each voice clip before Jiwoo trained the speech model.
tag each voice clip
At the startup, Zayd wrote a tool that helps each annotator check labels.
Iris became the lead annotator for the team's medical image project.
文法句型
an annotator for + dataset/project
annotator of + images/text/audio
用法筆記
Often followed by details about the type of data, such as images, speech, or text. Unlike sense 1, the goal is usually to label data systematically rather than explain a written work to a reader.