
The 42× number that should change how you scope annotation projects
If you’ve worked on NLP for low-resource languages — Yoruba, Quechua, Tigrinya, Hmong — you know the math is brutal. Native speakers with domain expertise are scarce. Their time is
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If you’ve worked on NLP for low-resource languages — Yoruba, Quechua, Tigrinya, Hmong — you know the math is brutal. Native speakers with domain expertise are scarce. Their time is

The dominant model for AI-assisted research has been batch processing: submit a query, wait for the system to work through it, receive a result. The interaction is asynchronous, the feedback loop is slow, and the human is largely passive until the output arrives. A paper from early 2026 presents a
