| Challenge: | Existing methods for efficiently eliciting scalar annotations for dataset construction and system quality estimation by human judgments are not shown. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for efficiently eliciting scalar annotations by human judgments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method leads to increased correlation with ground truth, suggesting it is an improved mechanism for dataset creation and manual system evaluation. |
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