Multi-Perspective LLM Annotations for Valid Analyses in Subjective Tasks

Navya Mehrotra, Adam Visokay, Kristina Gligorić


Abstract
Large language models are increasingly used to annotate texts, but their outputs reflect some human perspectives better than others. Existing methods for correcting LLM annotation error assume a single ground truth. However, this assumption fails in subjective tasks where disagreement across demographic groups is meaningful. Here we introduce Perspective-Driven Inference, a method that treats the distribution of annotations across groups as the quantity of interest, and estimates it using a small human annotation budget. We contribute an adaptive sampling strategy that concentrates human annotation effort on groups where LLM proxies are least accurate. We evaluate on politeness and offensiveness rating tasks, showing targeted improvements for harder-to-model demographic groups relative to uniform sampling baselines, while maintaining coverage.
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2026.aacl-long.25
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Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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November
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2026
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Hengqin, China
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Yue Zhang, Ruifeng Xu, Ayu Purwarianti, Tong Rong, Jun Suzuki
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AACL | IJCNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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537–560
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Navya Mehrotra, Adam Visokay, and Kristina Gligorić. 2026. Multi-Perspective LLM Annotations for Valid Analyses in Subjective Tasks. In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 537–560, Hengqin, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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