Annotando

Annotando is the present participle form used in Romance-language contexts to describe the act of annotating—adding notes, comments, or labels to data, texts, images, or other media. The term traces to Latin annotare, through the Romance language family, and is used in modern Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian as the gerund of annotar or annotare.

In scholarly and professional contexts, annotating refers to the practice of attaching metadata or structural information to sources. In linguistics and corpus linguistics, annotators label tokens with part-of-speech tags, lemmas, syntactic structures, or semantic roles. In digital humanities, annotations may document provenance, editions, or scholarly commentary on manuscripts and maps.

In data science and machine learning, annotation denotes labeling data to enable supervised learning. This encompasses image labeling, text tagging, transcription of audio, and other forms of data curation. Annotation projects typically rely on explicit guidelines and may involve multiple annotators to measure reliability through inter-annotator agreement.

Techniques range from manual, rule-based annotation to automated or semi-automatic pipelines that are refined by human review. The choice of annotation schema, tooling, and quality-control procedures depends on the research or application goals, data type, and required granularity.