Noteerattavien

Noteerattavien is a Finnish term used in data annotation and corpus linguistics to describe items that can be annotated. The form noteerattavien is the genitive plural of noteerattava, literally 'annotatable' or 'capable of being annotated.' In practice, it denotes the elements within a dataset that are eligible for annotation, such as text spans, tokens, metadata fields, or other discrete units.

Applications include natural language processing, where noteerattavien can cover token units for part-of-speech tagging, named-entity recognition, or syntactic bracketing; in digital humanities, they can refer to passages in a manuscript, line boundaries, or image regions in an annotation project.

Annotation processes: Defining noteerattavien is part of creating an annotation scheme. Guidelines specify which items qualify, how boundaries are determined, and what labels may be assigned. Consistency and inter-annotator agreement depend on clear definitions and procedures for handling ambiguities.

Relation to data quality: Poorly specified noteerattavien or inconsistent criteria lead to low reliability and biased datasets. Projects often publish the list of noteerattavien and share annotation guidelines to improve transparency.

See also: Annotation; Corpus linguistics; Data labeling.