My position in doXray is of Annotation Team Lead which consists of carefully studying customer demands for a group of documents and then annotating them together with the rest of the annotation team. This position is also responsible for transferring all the customer demands properly to the rest of the annotation team and after that overviewing the annotation process. Annotating a document means extracting a certain type of text depending on the customer demand. These demands can either include extracting dates and emails from the document, while some require extracting bills and names.  

Annotation Team Lead assigns annotators to specific documents and provides a written set of rules for those documents. In case of ambiguities, a meeting is scheduled where we discuss these issues, and update or change annotation rules. After the annotation process is completed, the annotation team lead re-checks that all documents are annotated in accordance with customer demands. 

While the overall process of managing and completing customer demands regarding annotation can be lengthy, having a reliable and competitive team and efficient teamwork strategy is very important to finish the annotation process on time. 

To successfully cover all the customer demands the entire team must work together and completely  pay focus on every detail for each document being handled. 

Annotation workflow 

·         Adding new team members: When we add a new member to our team, we always look to find the best people for this type of job, and we accomplish that by listing several things that we require and then interviewing each of the candidate. If we think that the certain candidate is right for the job, we then have a follow-up meeting with them where we go into details with what they will be doing. We make sure that they feel welcome and introduce them to the rest of the team. As a result, new vibe and energy coming from every individual help boost the morale and productivity of the overall team working together.  

·         Communication: Our entire team of competitive and hardworking individuals focuses on understanding the customer demands and spreading the information efficiently. In this way, even when someone lags behind, consistent communication and discussion makes it easier to cope with such problems. Often, new team members tend to be silent and agreeing to older members who normally know more which could result in more edits and changes before turning the documents in for the customer. Therefore, we assure them that we would like to hear their opinion because in our team everyone's opinion matters. 

·         Inter team communication: The focus of our business, while working on each customer's documents, is to understand the customer's demands thoroughly. Hence, when we encounter complex demands, conducting team meetings and managing such tasks with thorough understanding makes the work done with more perfection and ease for every worker in the team. We conduct these meetings usually with machine learning people as we named the ML engineers every week to focus on complex documents and to agree on what would be the best approach for certain type of documents. 

·         Quality assurance: Many members work together and focus on completing the tasks on time, and if some members lag with their speed or determination, we arrange a team meeting where we discuss how to fix these things so that everything is finished on time. After the annotation process has been done the annotation team lead will check if everything was annotated according to the customer demands and if there are some things that need to be fixed or improved, we usually have a meeting where we address these things. 

Finally 

While the perks of being an Annotation Team Lead and conducting a small or medium sized team can be equally relaxing and stressful, we, as a team, are always willing to take things to the bright side and satisfy our customer demands. So, as long as we're working together as a team, there's nothing to worry about.