Task Assignment meets Annotator Modeling: Human-LLM Collaborative Annotation with Constraints

Kei Moriyama, Kouta Nakayama, Yukino Baba


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 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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2026.acl-srw.79
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, United States
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Santosh T.Y.S.S., Juan Diego Rodriguez, Ona de Gibert
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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888–902
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Kei Moriyama, Kouta Nakayama, and Yukino Baba. 2026. Task Assignment meets Annotator Modeling: Human-LLM Collaborative Annotation with Constraints. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), pages 888–902, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Task Assignment meets Annotator Modeling: Human-LLM Collaborative Annotation with Constraints (Moriyama et al., ACL 2026)
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