Finding My Niche: Becoming a Specialist in Annotation
How I moved from linguistic research into professional data annotation for AI projects.
~5 min · Updated Sep 2025
Articles
Linguistic Analysis vs. Industry Annotation
How academic conversation analysis relates to day-to-day annotation in AI projects.
~6 min · Updated Sep 2025
From Conversation Analysis to Data Annotation
How my background in conversation analysis shaped my approach to data annotation, bridging academic methods and industry standards.
~6 min · Updated Sep 2025
Annotating Pain Language: Integrating Linguistics and NLP
Designing and applying a pain-language scheme that integrates conceptual and clinical categories.
~7 min · Updated Sep 2025
Annotation Across Two Worlds: Linguistics vs. NLP
Comparing academic and industry approaches to annotating linguistic data.
~6 min · Updated Sep 2025
Metaphor to Measurement · Building a Pain Tagger
A small project to prototype an automatic tagger for pain metaphors from concept to first tests.
~7 min · Updated Sep 2025
Data Taxonomy for Pain Language
A hierarchical schema that ties conceptual, clinical and functional categories together.
~4 min · Updated Sep 2025
Lightweight QA and Sampling Notes
Quick ideas for light-touch quality review and strategic sampling in annotation projects.
~3 min · Updated Sep 2025
Annotation Snippets and Prompts I Reuse
A small personal kit of snippets, templates and prompts I reuse across projects.
~3 min · Updated Sep 2025
Annotation in Practice: Two Mini Case Studies
Two concise, real-world annotation examples with token-level decisions and guideline rationale.
~4 min · Updated Sep 2025
Measuring Annotation Quality: A Mini Evaluation Project
How I used Cohen’s Kappa and F1 to diagnose disagreement and refine a pain descriptor guideline.
~5 min · Updated Sep 2025