From Noise to Signal to Selbstzweck: Reframing Human Label Variation in the Era of Post-training in NLP

arXiv:2510.12817v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human Label Variation (HLV) refers to legitimate disagreement in annotation that reflects the diversity of human perspectives rather than mere error. Long treated in NLP as noise to be eliminated, HLV has only recently been reframed as a...