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Title: Allocation Schemes in Analytic Evaluation: Applicant-Centric Holistic or Attribute-Centric Segmented?
Award ID(s):
1942124
NSF-PAR ID:
10393985
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
ISSN:
2769-1330
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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