Cost-Efficient Subjective Task Annotation and Modeling through Few-Shot Annotator Adaptation (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | In subjective tasks, the inclusion of diverse annotators is crucial as their unique perspectives significantly influence the annotations. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that minimizes the annotation budget while maximizing the predictive performance for each annotator. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework surpasses the previous SOTA in capturing the annotators’ individual perspectives with as little as 25% of the original annotation budget on two datasets. |
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