annotate
verb
an·no·tate
ˈa-nə-ˌtāt 
annotated; annotating
: to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment
: to make or furnish annotations (see annotation sense 1) for (something, such as a literary work or subject)
annotated his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy
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He annotated the text at several places.
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Here, Butterworth shares annotated script pages from that scene and breaks it down for us.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
That same year, Cornell released Merlin Sound ID, which was originally trained on around two hundred and fifty hours of bird sounds, as well as on background noises (whistling wind, passing cars), all manually annotated by experts.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
The most likely way to get that done will be recording large datasets of fungal electrical signals emitted in response to each exposure, annotating them, and then training AI models to interpret the fungal language.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024
All this is typically made possible with the help of underpaid workers in the Global South to annotate that data at a mammoth scale.
—Adam Clair, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
That same year, Cornell released Merlin Sound ID, which was originally trained on around two hundred and fifty hours of bird sounds, as well as on background noises (whistling wind, passing cars), all manually annotated by experts.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
The most likely way to get that done will be recording large datasets of fungal electrical signals emitted in response to each exposure, annotating them, and then training AI models to interpret the fungal language.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024
All this is typically made possible with the help of underpaid workers in the Global South to annotate that data at a mammoth scale.
—Adam Clair, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024
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annotate
verb
an·no·tate
ˈa-nə-ˌtāt
annotated; annotating
: to make or write an annotation
: to make or write annotations for
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