Aggregating Soft Labels from Crowd Annotations Improves Uncertainty Estimation Under Distribution Shift

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Main Authors:	Wright, Dustin, Augenstein, Isabelle
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2022
Subjects:	Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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