kambabench/docs/VALIDATION.md

# Native-speaker validation protocol

**Status: not yet written.** Roadmap item v0.2 ("Recruit native Kamba reviewers" / "Validate
evaluation transcripts").

This document will specify, once native-speaker validation begins:

- reviewer recruitment and any compensation/attribution arrangements,
- the exact review checklist (intelligibility, transcription accuracy, spelling acceptability,
  correct dialectal representation, problematic-recording flagging — see README.md's
  "Native-speaker validation" principle),
- how disagreements between reviewers are resolved,
- how a clip's `validation_status` and `needs_native_validation` fields get updated based on
  review outcomes, and
- versioning for the review protocol itself, so which protocol version produced a given
  `validation_status` is always traceable.