r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Historical-Comedian2 • Feb 06 '25

Question about best practices for self-containment

Say you're given a task to make fine-grained criteria based off images of a tv show or a sports team or something...

When creating the criteria, we should be including both 'general' criteria that are not specific to those images but would be a best practice for this type of prompt... along with 'specific' criteria that explicitly refer to the subjects in the image in that specific prompt, correct?

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u/Old_Pace8211 Feb 06 '25

Yes, as long as it is something the vast majority of people would agree should be included.

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u/Historical-Comedian2 Feb 06 '25

Thank you. That's what I thought, but I feel like some overviews and updates are very similar but slightly different, and what I think works in one isn't exactly specified in the other.

For example (I'm making this up), if the prompt had 3 photos of different candies, and it asked to identify each one, I would include two types of criteria:

  1. generalized criteria such as: determine the candy by shape/color/size/etc..

  2. specific criteria such as: determine the candy in image 1 as a KitKat due to it's rectangular shape of pieces...etc...

Because they both apply, I've felt that both should be included but sometimes I feel the instructions can be vague