nltk.AnnotationTask¶

class nltk.AnnotationTask(data=None, distance=<function binary_distance>)[source]¶

Represents an annotation task, i.e. people assign labels to items.

Notation tries to match notation in Artstein and Poesio (2007).

In general, coders and items can be represented as any hashable object. Integers, for example, are fine, though strings are more readable. Labels must support the distance functions applied to them, so e.g. a string-edit-distance makes no sense if your labels are integers, whereas interval distance needs numeric values. A notable case of this is the MASI metric, which requires Python sets.