Data Preparation with Appen

Save Time and Effort when Building Machine Learning Products

The Appen platform combines cutting-edge models and human intelligence from over one million people all over the world to create the highest-quality training data for your ML projects.

Data Annotation Tools

Our platform combines cutting-edge models with human intelligence at scale to annotate data including text, video, images, and audio, to create accurate ground truth data.

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Using our tools contributors can annotate images and add ontologies accordingly, training computers how to differentiate between items and prices in an image.

Enterprise Capabilities

Trusted by global leaders, we are built to support large customers providing scale, security, quality and speed, across a diverse set of industries and use cases.

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Our Quaiity Audit feature allows customers to audit their data enabling them to improve quality if needed before they train their model.

Trusted by global leaders to power their mission-critical AI with data for over 25 years

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State-Of-The Art Data Privacy and Security

On-site secure data annotation and collection capabilities in Europe, US and Asia
Global work-from-home secure workspaces and single sign-on capabilities
Data privacy and security compliant, holding all major accreditations and certifications

Quality

High-Quality Results Delivered Consistently

Track record of delivering high-quality results at large scale for long-standing customers
Proven methodology and expertise to measure and delivery quality results
Reduced bias in results thanks to our globally representative workforce of over 1M in 170+ countries
Built-in features that monitor and improve quality during and after annotations

Usability

Easy to use Data for AI Lifecycle Platform

Variety of delivery models, ranging from self-service on our platform to fully outsourced
Intuitive Graphical User Interface with annotation job templates and 24/7 support
Powerful API integrations to connect into your existing MLOps infrastructure

Scale

Proven Ability to Scale Large Data Batches Across All Use Cases

Over 25 years of working with world’s largest and most innovative AI companies
Broad and deep data modality support
Over 1M crowd workers provide unmatched workforce diversity and scalability

Speed

High-Quality Training Data Accessible at Greater Speed

Pre-Labeling powered by machine learning models to increase data annotation speed
Speed Labeling powered by machine learning models provides in-tool efficiency to increase throughput of annotations
Workflows to automate complex multistep tasks and sequential jobs

Types of Annotation Capabilities We Offer

Collect

Data Types: Text, Image, Audio, Video, URL

Collect user-generated content and links including audio, images, and websites to build data programs. We support complex data use cases like in-car audio collection, text utterance collection for chatbots, as well as more straightforward image/audio collection and information extraction jobs.

Classify

Data Types: Text, Image, Audio, Video, URL, Sensor

Classify and categorize any kind of data at scale using our annotation platform. Moderate and sort high volumes of content with precision. Common use cases include content moderation, sentiment analysis, search relevance, product classification, and object classification.

Annotate

Data Types: Text, Image, Audio, Video, Sensor

Annotate images, text, videos, point clouds, and audio with our state-of-the-art technology platform. We also support text labeling tools like NER and parts of speech labeling.

Transcribe

Data Types: Image, Audio, Video

Transcribe documents, images of documents, or website information. We offer audio transcription services to cater to scaling your natural language processing (NLP) and audio speech recognition (ASR) programs.

Translate

Data Types: Text, Video, Audio

Our crowd of over one million skilled contributors supports over 235 different languages. With a suite of specialized linguistic experts in-house, we are more than equipped to translate large volumes of data to reliably train your AI and ML models.

Secure Data Access

Data security requirements are met for customers working with personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), and other sophisticated compliance needs.

Enterprise-level security to protect sensitive client data

Secure Crowd

We offer a suite of secure service offerings with flexible options to ensure data security via secure facilities, secure remote workers, and onsite services to meet specific business needs.

Enterprise-level security to protect sensitive client data

Secure Facilities

We have sites in multiple geographies to support projects with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and other sensitive data, as well as the right people, policies, and processes in place for a range of security levels, up to government level certification.

Enterprise-level security to protect sensitive client data

Secure Workspace

With our ISO 27001 accredited remote Secure Workspace solution, our global crowd can work on your sensitive projects remotely, without having to access a physical secure facility. This allows the diversity of our remote crowd to reduce bias and support multiple languages even through global disruptions.

Enterprise-level security to protect sensitive client data

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Explore our cutting-edge annotation platform using the navigation available in the interactive tour. You will be able to see how you can create annotation jobs, define test questions and configure details all the way to launching the annotation job.

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