AIANO: Enhancing Information Retrieval with AI-Augmented Annotation

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Hauptverfasser: Khattab, Sameh, Bauer, Marie, Heine, Lukas, Rostalski, Till, Kleesiek, Jens, Friedrich, Julian
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Khattab, Sameh
Bauer, Marie
Heine, Lukas
Rostalski, Till
Kleesiek, Jens
Friedrich, Julian
author_facet Khattab, Sameh
Bauer, Marie
Heine, Lukas
Rostalski, Till
Kleesiek, Jens
Friedrich, Julian
contents The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has rapidly increased the need for high-quality, curated information retrieval datasets. These datasets, however, are currently created with off-the-shelf annotation tools that make the annotation process complex and inefficient. To streamline this process, we developed a specialized annotation tool - AIANO. By adopting an AI-augmented annotation workflow that tightly integrates human expertise with LLM assistance, AIANO enables annotators to leverage AI suggestions while retaining full control over annotation decisions. In a within-subject user study ($n = 15$), participants created question-answering datasets using both a baseline tool and AIANO. AIANO nearly doubled annotation speed compared to the baseline while being easier to use and improving retrieval accuracy. These results demonstrate that AIANO's AI-augmented approach accelerates and enhances dataset creation for information retrieval tasks, advancing annotation capabilities in retrieval-intensive domains.
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spellingShingle AIANO: Enhancing Information Retrieval with AI-Augmented Annotation
Khattab, Sameh
Bauer, Marie
Heine, Lukas
Rostalski, Till
Kleesiek, Jens
Friedrich, Julian
Information Retrieval
Computation and Language
The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has rapidly increased the need for high-quality, curated information retrieval datasets. These datasets, however, are currently created with off-the-shelf annotation tools that make the annotation process complex and inefficient. To streamline this process, we developed a specialized annotation tool - AIANO. By adopting an AI-augmented annotation workflow that tightly integrates human expertise with LLM assistance, AIANO enables annotators to leverage AI suggestions while retaining full control over annotation decisions. In a within-subject user study ($n = 15$), participants created question-answering datasets using both a baseline tool and AIANO. AIANO nearly doubled annotation speed compared to the baseline while being easier to use and improving retrieval accuracy. These results demonstrate that AIANO's AI-augmented approach accelerates and enhances dataset creation for information retrieval tasks, advancing annotation capabilities in retrieval-intensive domains.
title AIANO: Enhancing Information Retrieval with AI-Augmented Annotation
topic Information Retrieval
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04579