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micro-annotation

micro-annotation noun: annotation of a small subset of an image, document, corpus, piece of music, etc.

Noun

micro-annotation (countable and uncountable, plural micro-annotations)

  1. Annotation of a small subset of an image, document, corpus, piece of music, etc.
    • It is composed of three tiers: an annotation client that deals with micro-annotations (i.e. within-file annotations), a collection tagger, which deals with macro-annotations (i.e. across-files annotations), and a collaborative annotation subsystem, which manages large-scale annotation tasks that...2005, Perfecto Herrera, Òscar Celma, Jordi Massaguer, Pedro Cano, Emilia Gómez, Fabien Gouyon, Markus Koppenberger, David García, José-Pedro García, Nicolas Wack, MUCOSA: A Music Content Semantic...
    • Two strategies have been used to obtain accurate annotations: corporeal annotation and micro-annotation.2007, Marc Leman, Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology, page 231

Forms of micro-annotation

pluralmicro-annotations

Origin of micro-annotation

From micro- + annotation.

Questions about micro-annotation

What does micro-annotation mean?
Micro-annotation means annotation of a small subset of an image, document, corpus, piece of music, etc.
What part of speech is micro-annotation?
Micro-annotation is a noun.
What is the plural of micro-annotation?
The plural of micro-annotation is micro-annotations.

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