- Shilpa Arora, Eric Nyberg, C. Rosé. 2009. Estimating Annotation Cost for Active Learning in a Multi-Annotator Environment. Abstract: We present an empirical investigation of the annotation cost estimation task for active learning in a multi-annotator environment. We present our analysis from two perspectives: selecting examples to be presented to the user for annotation; and evaluating selective sampling strategies when actual annotation cost is not available. We present our results on a movie review classification task with rationale annotations. We demonstrate that a combination of instance, annotator and annotation task characteristics are important for developing an accurate estimator, and argue that both correlation coefficient and root mean square error should be used for evaluating annotation cost estimators.
