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.