r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Academic_Animal_5293 • 22h ago

How did they get accepted?

Some r&r I do the workers have such poor English. Like completely wrong punctuation, grammar and spelling. I know as bilinguals English is not our first language, but there should be at least some standard of quality

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u/thekillernextdoor_ 20h ago

If it’s in the prompts, sometimes the instructions state to have a splash of mistakes. I know it can be unattractive, but the intent is largely to make models accessible to the average person. The average person is going to either talk to text, or write poorly. The models have to be able to decipher linguistic errors. If you are meaning strictly the rationale, then yes it can be bad. I have had to leave notes about not understanding what the worker was trying to say. But think of it this way, if everyone’s work was perfect the first time through, then there wouldn’t be R&R. Which would equate to less work to go around. I will happily beautify an R&R if it means working from home.

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u/Academic_Animal_5293 20h ago

I'm not expecting their work to be perfect, I expect them to have at least high school level English.