märgendatud

Märgendatud is a Estonian adjective meaning marked, tagged, or annotated, and is formed from the verb märgendama “to mark.” It describes objects, data, or texts that have received a mark, label, or annotation.

Etymology and grammar: Märgendatud originates from the stem märgend- with the past passive participle suffix -atud, functioning as an adjective that agrees with the noun it modifies. It is commonly used in compound phrases such as märgendatud andmed (labeled data) or märgendatud tekst (annotated text). In many contexts, it is interchangeable with terms like annotatsiooniga märgitud or tähistatud, depending on style and field.

Usage and contexts: In data science and machine learning, märgendatud andmed refers to data that has been labeled or tagged with target categories or metadata, enabling supervised learning. In linguistics or corpus work, märgendatud tekst denotes text that has been annotated with linguistic information such as part-of-speech tags or syntactic structure. In cartography or mapping, märgendatud asetsused can describe features that have been marked on a map. The term is standard in technical writing and is widely understood across Estonian-language sources.

Examples: The dataset contains märgendatud kuupäevad and märgendatud vastused, suitable for training a classifier. The document describes märgendatud märgid on kaardil, indicating features that have been highlighted for review.

Relation and variants: Related concepts include märgendama (to mark), märg, and annotatsioon. In practice, märgendatud is often translated as “labeled” or “annotated” in English, reflecting its use across disciplines to indicate deliberate tagging or labeling.

This term is a routine part of Estonian technical vocabulary for documentation, data labeling, and linguistic annotation.