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Data annotation

As explained in Building Reliable AI Systems

The process of adding human-provided labels, rankings, or other judgments to data.

Fine-tuning data needs human judgments when examples lack the labels or rankings a task requires. For example, people can tag legal documents by issue area or rate responses for qualities such as politeness and thoroughness. section 5.3.1

Make annotation useful for fine-tuning by aligning it with the intended task:

  • Use labels for the task the model should learn, such as legal-document issue categories. section 5.3.1
  • Prioritize accurate, domain-appropriate examples over a larger volume of noisy data; involve domain experts in review where possible. section 5.3.1
  • Correct inaccurate examples and filter irrelevant or sensitive information before training. section 5.3.1

How Building Reliable AI Systems covers it

How deep it goes
Explains when manual labels and ratings are needed, but stops short of a labeling protocol or reviewer-agreement method.
Examples
Uses legal-document issue tags and human ratings or annotations of response politeness and thoroughness as examples.
What you can do after
Practice/perform it by tagging domain documents or judging outputs against a quality goal, while favoring accurate, domain-reviewed examples.
How it connects
Connects annotation to fine-tuning, dataset preparation, and human evaluation of model outputs.

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