Text annotation

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Introduction

“Ovsiannikov, Arbib, & Mcneill (1999) suggested that online annotations involve four major functions: remembering, thinking, clarifying, and sharing.” (Yeh et al, 2006).

Use cases in education

In education, we may distinguish two kinds of text annotations

• Notes a reader makes to himself/herself when studying texts or when noting references they plan to further investigate (Wolfe, 2002).
• Comments a reader makes for someone else.

• {{Bargeron, et al, (2001) claimed, tools for manipulating and rearranging annotations can scaffold different note-taking and information strategies that help students learn to move from reading to writing. Specifically, annotations can provide in-context personal notes and can enable asynchronous collaboration among groups of user}}. (cited by Yeh et al, 2006).

Bibliography

• Ovsiannikov, I.A., Arbib, M.A., and Mcneill, T. H. (1999). Annotation Technology. International Journal, Human-Computer Studies, 50, 329-362.

• Yeh, S., Lo, J. & Huang, J. (2006). The Development of an Online Annotation System for EFL Writing with Error Feedback and Error Analysis. In E. Pearson & P. Bohman (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2006 (pp. 2480-2485). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Abstract/PDF

• Wolfe, J. (2002). Annotation technologies: A software and research review. Computers and Composition, 19, 471-497.