Disclaimer:

None of the information provided on this page is legally binding.

I want to provide the most information I can as early as possible.

The only legally binding information will be in your contract with the university.

General Information:

Yes, of course you can have a look at the data before you start working.

If you send me an e-mail I will give you access to a testing site where you can look at the data.

The work requires some training and a lot of concentration. I personally enjoy it in short sessions of about 5 files.

Contract Information:

• Students of the FSU will always be hired via assistent contracts (this is set by the university).
• Non-students can choose to get paid by file or by hour of recording annotated. This is because we have to define the workload beforehand.
• Non-students will be given a Werkvertrag with the agreed number of files/hours to annotate.
• You can agree to a smaller number of files (at least 20) and then expand your contract later.
• If you can not complete the agreed amount of work, we can work out a partial payment based on the number of files you completed.

Payment Information:

• Every language has a planned budget of around 1000 Euros with some wiggle room to stay above minimum wage.
• The project requires 50 hours to be annotated at an estimated rate of 2 hours of annotation time per 1 hour of recording time.
• Therefore 100 hours is the maximum work load you can sign up for per language to receive up to about 1000 Euros (the exact number will be in the contract, there is some wiggle room, we can go a bit higher for larger workloads).
• From experience I can say that the first ~20 annotations are very slow, but with experience 2 minutes for every 1 minute of recording is doable.
  

"Fine Print"

• You may at any time ask me if the annotations you sent follow the terms we agreed on. (About once every 4 days after the starting period.)
• If asked, I will be testing the annotations you sent and give you a binding answer.
• If the annotations do not follow the terms we agreed on, you will be given a reasonable amount of added time to fix them.
• If you choose not to fix the annotations, then payment may be lowered or withheld depending on the time it takes to fix the annotations.