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Also known as note, markup, annotating

An annotation is extra information associated with a particular point in a document or other piece of information. It can be a note that includes a comment or explanation. Annotations are sometimes presented in the margin of book pages. For annotations of different digital media, see web annotation and text annotation.

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  • Literature, grammar and educational purposes
  • Practicing visually
  • Text and film annotation
  • Medieval marginalia
  • Textual scholarship
  • Education
  • Mathematical expression annotation
  • Learning and instruction
  • On YouTube
  • Software and engineering
  • Text documents
  • Tabular data
  • Semantic labelling techniques
  • Geometric techniques
  • Probabilistic techniques
  • Logical techniques
  • Non-ML techniques
  • Semantic labelling common tasks
  • Entity linking and disambiguation
  • Subject column identification
  • Column data-type detection
  • Relation prediction
  • Gold standards
  • Source control
  • Programming
  • Java annotations
  • Image annotation
  • Computational biology
  • Digital imaging
  • Other uses
  • Law
  • Linguistics
  • See also
  • References

An annotation is extra information associated with a particular point in a document or other piece of information. It can be a note that includes a comment or explanation. Annotations are sometimes presented in the margin of book pages. For annotations of different digital media, see web annotation and text annotation.

== Literature, grammar and educational purposes ==

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