IDIAPers @ Causal News Corpus 2022: Efficient Causal Relation Identification Through a Prompt-based Few-shot Approach

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Main Authors: Burdisso, Sergio, Zuluaga-Gomez, Juan, Villatoro-Tello, Esau, Fajcik, Martin, Singh, Muskaan, Smrz, Pavel, Motlicek, Petr
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author Burdisso, Sergio
Zuluaga-Gomez, Juan
Villatoro-Tello, Esau
Fajcik, Martin
Singh, Muskaan
Smrz, Pavel
Motlicek, Petr
author_facet Burdisso, Sergio
Zuluaga-Gomez, Juan
Villatoro-Tello, Esau
Fajcik, Martin
Singh, Muskaan
Smrz, Pavel
Motlicek, Petr
contents In this paper, we describe our participation in the subtask 1 of CASE-2022, Event Causality Identification with Casual News Corpus. We address the Causal Relation Identification (CRI) task by exploiting a set of simple yet complementary techniques for fine-tuning language models (LMs) on a small number of annotated examples (i.e., a few-shot configuration). We follow a prompt-based prediction approach for fine-tuning LMs in which the CRI task is treated as a masked language modeling problem (MLM). This approach allows LMs natively pre-trained on MLM problems to directly generate textual responses to CRI-specific prompts. We compare the performance of this method against ensemble techniques trained on the entire dataset. Our best-performing submission was fine-tuned with only 256 instances per class, 15.7% of the all available data, and yet obtained the second-best precision (0.82), third-best accuracy (0.82), and an F1-score (0.85) very close to what was reported by the winner team (0.86).
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spellingShingle IDIAPers @ Causal News Corpus 2022: Efficient Causal Relation Identification Through a Prompt-based Few-shot Approach
Burdisso, Sergio
Zuluaga-Gomez, Juan
Villatoro-Tello, Esau
Fajcik, Martin
Singh, Muskaan
Smrz, Pavel
Motlicek, Petr
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
In this paper, we describe our participation in the subtask 1 of CASE-2022, Event Causality Identification with Casual News Corpus. We address the Causal Relation Identification (CRI) task by exploiting a set of simple yet complementary techniques for fine-tuning language models (LMs) on a small number of annotated examples (i.e., a few-shot configuration). We follow a prompt-based prediction approach for fine-tuning LMs in which the CRI task is treated as a masked language modeling problem (MLM). This approach allows LMs natively pre-trained on MLM problems to directly generate textual responses to CRI-specific prompts. We compare the performance of this method against ensemble techniques trained on the entire dataset. Our best-performing submission was fine-tuned with only 256 instances per class, 15.7% of the all available data, and yet obtained the second-best precision (0.82), third-best accuracy (0.82), and an F1-score (0.85) very close to what was reported by the winner team (0.86).
title IDIAPers @ Causal News Corpus 2022: Efficient Causal Relation Identification Through a Prompt-based Few-shot Approach
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03895