Machine Learning Platform Overview
The most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform

Confidently Deploy Machine Learning Products With Our Platform
The Appen platform combines human intelligence from over one million people all over the world with cutting-edge models to create the highest-quality training data for your ML projects. Upload your data to our platform and we provide the annotations, judgments, and labels you need to create accurate ground truth for your models.
Our Platform Includes:

Data Annotation Capabilities
High-quality data annotation is key for training any AI/ML model successfully. After all, this is how your model learns what judgments it should be making. Our platform combines human intelligence at scale with cutting-edge models to annotate all sorts of raw data, from text, to video, to images, to audio, to create the accurate ground truth needed for your models. Create and launch data annotation jobs easily through our plug and play graphical user interface, or programmatically through our API.

Enterprise Capabilities
With over a decade of experience and 10+ billion judgments, our enterprise-ready data annotation platform delivers unprecedented quality and scale across a diverse set of industries and use cases. For large companies, we deliver enterprise solutions and multiple deployment options to support your robust business requirements.

Smart Labeling
Run your data annotation and collection projects using machine learning models that automate and improve productivity, quality, and delivery throughout the training data preparation journey.

Workflows
Workflows allows customers to build and automate multistep data annotation projects with ease. Customers now have access to a real data pipeline solution that reduces latency and increases efficiency via automated data routing.
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Types of Annotation Capabilities We Offer


Collect
Data Types: Text, Image, Audio, Video, URL
Collect user-generated content and links from around the web including audio, images, and websites to help your data program. We support complex data use cases like in-car audio collection or text utterance collection for chatbot programs, as well as more straightforward image/audio collection and information extraction jobs.
Classify
Data Types: Text, Image, Audio, Video, URL, Point Cloud
Classify and categorize any kind of data on a massive scale using our annotation platform. Moderate and sort high volumes of content your users provide with precision. Common use cases include content moderation, sentiment analysis, search relevance, product classification, and object classification.
Annotate
Data Types: Text, Image, Audio, Video, Point Cloud
Annotate images, text, videos, point clouds, and audio with one of our annotation tools. Whether it's a simple bounding box or segmentation of audio, we can support your annotation with our state of the art technology platform. We also support text labeling tools like NER and parts of speech labeling. Many of our tools feature machine learning assistance for greater efficiency and accuracy vs human annotation alone. Find what you need in our platform's template library.
Transcribe
Data Types: Image, Audio, Video
Transcribe documents, images of documents, or website information using a variety of services - whether it be a single field or multiple pages. We also 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
We offer a crowd of over one million skilled contributors, with an offering of 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
We have enterprise level security options to suit your sensitive data needs,




Secure Crowd
We have enterprise level security options to suit your sensitive data needs,




Deployment Options
Private cloud deploymentÂ
That can be hosted on your specific cloud environment.
On-premises deployment
That can be deployed in your particular network either air-gapped or non-air-gapped.
We have enterprise level security options to suit your sensitive data needs,




SAML-based Single Sign-on
We have enterprise level security options to suit your sensitive data needs,




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