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How Many Labellers Revisited – Naı̈ves, Experts, and Real Experts

A database of non-native German productions was annotated by three different groups: by experts using detailed, localised labels as well as coarse, global labels, and by phoneticians and naı̈ve subjects, using the same coarse global labels. For the detailed annotation, segmental and supra-segmental labels were given segment-based and word-based. The global annotation consisted of a turn-based as...

How many labellers revisited - naïves, experts, and real experts

A database of non-native German productions was annotated by three different groups: by experts using detailed, localised labels as well as coarse, global labels, and by phoneticians and naı̈ve subjects, using the same coarse global labels. For the detailed annotation, segmental and supra-segmental labels were given segment-based and word-based. The global annotation consisted of a turn-based as...

Diabetes care: who are the experts?

OBJECTIVES To identify issues that patients and professionals consider important in diabetes care and differences in their priorities for care and to determine patients' and professionals' judgements of the relative importance of their chosen priorities. DESIGN Structured group interviews using the nominal group technique. SETTING Five district health authorities on Tyneside. SUBJECTS Fiv...

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