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Annotation is extra information associated with a particular point in a document or other piece of information. The ability to understand another speakers intended meaning is called pragmatic competence. ... For the similarly-named Surrealist journal, see Documents (journal). ...


Most commonly this is used, for example, in draft documents, where another reader has written notes about the quality of a document at a certain point, "in the margin". A draft of a document is one of several revisions, typically a crude and early one, though one may also speak of a final draft. ... Marginalia is the general term for notes, scribbles, doodles and editorial comments made in the margin of a book. ...


Annotations about bibliographical sources, labeled annotated bibliographies, give descriptions about how each source is useful to an author in constructing a paper or argument. Creating these blurbs, usually a few sentences long, establishes a summary for and expresses the relevance of each source prior to writing. An annotated bibliography is a bibliography that gives a summary of the research that has been done. ...

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Computing

In computing, the programmer often adds annotations to source code in the form of comments. These do not affect the working of the program but give explanations (for other programmers, or potential readers of the code principally, but also as a reminder for the author), hints or plans for improvement, etc. RAM (Random Access Memory) Look up computing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ... In computer programming, a comment is a programming language construct that provides a mechanism for embedding information in the source code that is (generally) ignored by compilers and interpreters but may be of use to people reading the program source, or other programming tools that process the source such as...


Further annotations can also be added by a compiler or programmer in the form of metadata, which is then made available in later stages of building or executing a program. For example, a compiler may use metadata to make decisions about what warnings to issue, or a linker can use metadata to connect multiple object files into a single executable. Differences in computer languages have given rise to a variety of words for programmer-added metadata, including annotation (Java), attribute (C#), pragma (C), and metadata (HTML). A diagram of the operation of a typical multi-language, multi-target compiler. ... The simplest definition of metadata is that it is data about data - more specifically information (data) about a particular content (data). ... Figure of the linking process, where object files and static libraries are assembled into a new library or executable. ... In computer programming, a Java annotation is a way of adding metadata to Java source code that can also be available to the programmer at run-time. ... Java is a programming language originally developed by Sun Microsystems and released in 1995. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... In computer science, a compiler directive is data embedded in source code by programmers to tell compilers some intention about compilation. ... C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ...


Computational Biology

Given that molecular biology and bioinformatics have known the need for DNA annotation since the 1980s, where a previously unknown sequence representation of genetic material is annotated with information relating position to intron-exon-boundaries, regulatory sequences, repeats, gene names and protein products, etc. This annotation is usually stored in predefined fields in biological databases, especially sequence databases. There are a number of very active genomic and proteomic annotation projects today, including Mouse Genome Informatics, FlyBase, and WormBase. Educational materials on some aspects of biological annotation from this year's Gene Ontology annotation camp and similar events are available at the Gene Ontology website. Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. ... Bioinformatics or computational biology is the use of techniques from applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science to solve biological problems. ... part of a DNA sequence A DNA sequence (sometimes genetic sequence) is a succession of letters representing the primary structure of a real or hypothetical DNA molecule or strand, The possible letters are A, C, G, and T, representing the four nucleotide subunits of a DNA strand (adenine, cytosine, guanine... Diagram of the location of introns and exons within a gene. ... An exon is any region of DNA within a gene, that is transcribed to the final messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule, rather than being spliced out from the transcribed RNA molecule. ... A regulatory sequence (also called regulatory region or ~ element) is a promoter, enhancer or other segment of DNA where regulatory proteins such as transcription factors bind preferentially. ... In the study of DNA sequences, one can distinguish two main types of repeated sequence: Tandem repeats: Satellite DNA, Minisatellite, Microsatellite; Interspersed repeats: SINEs (Short INterspersed Elements), LINEs (Long INterspersed Elements). ... For a non-technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to Genetics. ... Protein expression is a subcomponent of gene expression. ... As of 2006, there are over 1,000 public and commercial biological databases. ... In the field of bioinformatics, a sequence database is a large collection of DNA, protein, or other sequences stored on a computer. ... The Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) website is run by The Jackson Laboratory. ... FlyBase is an online bioinformatics database of the biology and genome of the model organism Drosophila melanogaster and related Drosophilid dipterans. ... The Gene Ontology, or GO, project can be broadly split into two parts. ...


Imaging

In the digital imaging community the term annotation is commonly used for visible metadata superimposed on an image without changing the underlying raster image, such as sticky notes, virtual laser pointers, circles, arrows, and black-outs (cf. redaction). Digital imaging or digital image acquisition is the creation of digital images, typically from a physical object. ... The simplest definition of metadata is that it is data about data - more specifically information (data) about a particular content (data). ... A digital image is a representation of a two-dimensional image as a finite set of digital values, called picture elements or pixels. ... A number of Post-it notes still glued together A Post-it note (or just Post-it) is a piece of stationery designed for temporarily attaching notes to documents, computer displays and so forth. ... Redaction generally refers to the editing of text to turn it into a form suitable for publication, or to the result of such an effort. ...


Law

In the United States, legal publishers such as Thomson West & Lexis Nexis publish annotated versions of statutes, providing information about each case that has interpreted each statute. Both the United States Code and state laws are subject to interpretation by the courts, and the annotated statutes are valuable tools in legal research. A statute is a formal, written law of a country or state, written and enacted by its legislative authority, perhaps to then be ratified by the highest executive in the government, and finally published. ... The United States Code (U.S.C.) is a compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal law of the United States. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ...


Linguistics

In linguistics, morphological, syntactic, semantic, discourse and pragmatic annotations add information about the linguistic form. Other forms of annotation include comments and metadata; these non-transcriptional annotations are also non-linguistic. A collection of texts with linguistic annotations is known as a corpus (plural corpora). Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. ... For other uses, see Morphology. ... In linguistics, syntax is the study of the rules, or patterned relations, that govern the way the words in a sentence come together. ... In general, semantics (from the Greek semantikos, or significant meaning, derived from sema, sign) is the study of meaning, in some sense of that term. ... Discourse is a term used in semantics as in discourse analysis, but it also refers to a social conception of discourse, often linked with the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) and Jürgen Habermas The Theory of Communicative Action (1985). ... Pragmatism is a school of philosophy which originated in the United States in the late 1800s. ... The simplest definition of metadata is that it is data about data - more specifically information (data) about a particular content (data). ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples (corpora) or real world text. ...


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Annotation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (293 words)
Annotation is extra information associated with a particular point in a document or other piece of information.
Annotations about bibliographical sources, labeled annotated bibliographies, give descriptions about how each source is useful to an author in constructing a paper or argument.
Further annotations can also be added by a compiler or programmer in the form of metadata, which is then made available in later stages of building or executing a program.
Annotation-Based Web Content Transcoding (5344 words)
When annotation files are stored in a repository, an appropriate annotation file for a Web document needs to be selected dynamically from the repository either implicitly by means of a structural analysis of the subject document or explicitly by means of a reference contained in the subject document or some other association database.
Annotation descriptions could be too complicated for a simple source tag editor to maintain, because addressing by XPath/XPointer follows a hierarchy of document elements from the root to a focal element, and alternative contents are structured as a hierarchy of conjunctive/disjunctive elements for replacement.
Annotation source tags are re-created from internal DOMs [7] for XML annotation by referring to annotating portions of a subject HTML document.
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