This paper presents an analysis of annotation using an automatic pre-annotation for a mid-level annotation complexity task -- dependency syntax annotation. It compares the annotation efforts made by annotators using a pre-annotated version (with a high-accuracy parser) and those made by fully manual annotation. The aim of the experiment is to judge the final annotation quality when pre-annotation is used. In addition, it evaluates the effect of automatic linguistically-based (rule-formulated) checks and another annotation on the same data available to the annotators, and their influence on annotation quality and efficiency. The experiment confirmed that the pre-annotation is an efficient tool for faster manual syntactic annotation which increases the consistency of the resulting annotation without reducing its quality.
@article{arxiv.2306.09307,
title = {Quality and Efficiency of Manual Annotation: Pre-annotation Bias},
author = {Marie Mikulová and Milan Straka and Jan Štěpánek and Barbora Štěpánková and Jan Hajič},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.09307},
year = {2023}
}