Within a corpus linguistics project analyzing historical legal texts, which risk increases as annotation scope broadens without adjusting for inter-annotator agreement?

💡 Explanation

Systematic annotation biases become amplified with a broader scope because inconsistent application of annotation guidelines across a larger corpus leads to skewed results. Therefore, inter-annotator reliability must be maintained. This matters rather than merely computational overhead, applicability, or collocation representation, which are secondary concerns related to corpus design but not directly tied to annotation consistency.

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