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title = "Task Assignment meets Annotator Modeling: Human-{LLM} Collaborative Annotation with Constraints",
author = "Moriyama, Kei and
Nakayama, Kouta and
Baba, Yukino",
editor = "T.Y.S.S., Santosh and
Rodriguez, Juan Diego and
de Gibert, Ona",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics ({ACL} 2026)",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.79/",
pages = "888--902",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-393-7",
abstract = "Crowdsourced annotators and Large Language Models (LLMs) offer complementary, cost-effective ways to obtain labeled data, yet ensuring high label quality remains challenging.We observe that task features influence the accuracy of humans and LLMs, while real-world constraints, such as per-annotator assignment limits, further complicate allocation.Prior work typically addresses either task features or constraints, but not both.We present an integrated framework that (i) estimates per-task accuracy from task features using a \textit{learning from crowds} model and (ii) incorporates these estimations into a linear programming formulation that assigns tasks under practical constraints. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves accuracy comparable to that of baseline methods while satisfying given constraints."
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%T Task Assignment meets Annotator Modeling: Human-LLM Collaborative Annotation with Constraints
%A Moriyama, Kei
%A Nakayama, Kouta
%A Baba, Yukino
%Y T.Y.S.S., Santosh
%Y Rodriguez, Juan Diego
%Y de Gibert, Ona
%S Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
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%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
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%P 888-902
Markdown (Informal)
[Task Assignment meets Annotator Modeling: Human-LLM Collaborative Annotation with Constraints](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.79/) (Moriyama et al., ACL 2026)
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