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Main Authors: Li, Minzhi, Shi, Taiwei, Ziems, Caleb, Kan, Min-Yen, Chen, Nancy F., Liu, Zhengyuan, Yang, Diyi
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15638
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author Li, Minzhi
Shi, Taiwei
Ziems, Caleb
Kan, Min-Yen
Chen, Nancy F.
Liu, Zhengyuan
Yang, Diyi
author_facet Li, Minzhi
Shi, Taiwei
Ziems, Caleb
Kan, Min-Yen
Chen, Nancy F.
Liu, Zhengyuan
Yang, Diyi
contents Annotated data plays a critical role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in training models and evaluating their performance. Given recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs), models such as ChatGPT demonstrate zero-shot capability on many text-annotation tasks, comparable with or even exceeding human annotators. Such LLMs can serve as alternatives for manual annotation, due to lower costs and higher scalability. However, limited work has leveraged LLMs as complementary annotators, nor explored how annotation work is best allocated among humans and LLMs to achieve both quality and cost objectives. We propose CoAnnotating, a novel paradigm for Human-LLM co-annotation of unstructured texts at scale. Under this framework, we utilize uncertainty to estimate LLMs' annotation capability. Our empirical study shows CoAnnotating to be an effective means to allocate work from results on different datasets, with up to 21% performance improvement over random baseline. For code implementation, see https://github.com/SALT-NLP/CoAnnotating.
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spellingShingle CoAnnotating: Uncertainty-Guided Work Allocation between Human and Large Language Models for Data Annotation
Li, Minzhi
Shi, Taiwei
Ziems, Caleb
Kan, Min-Yen
Chen, Nancy F.
Liu, Zhengyuan
Yang, Diyi
Computation and Language
Annotated data plays a critical role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in training models and evaluating their performance. Given recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs), models such as ChatGPT demonstrate zero-shot capability on many text-annotation tasks, comparable with or even exceeding human annotators. Such LLMs can serve as alternatives for manual annotation, due to lower costs and higher scalability. However, limited work has leveraged LLMs as complementary annotators, nor explored how annotation work is best allocated among humans and LLMs to achieve both quality and cost objectives. We propose CoAnnotating, a novel paradigm for Human-LLM co-annotation of unstructured texts at scale. Under this framework, we utilize uncertainty to estimate LLMs' annotation capability. Our empirical study shows CoAnnotating to be an effective means to allocate work from results on different datasets, with up to 21% performance improvement over random baseline. For code implementation, see https://github.com/SALT-NLP/CoAnnotating.
title CoAnnotating: Uncertainty-Guided Work Allocation between Human and Large Language Models for Data Annotation
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15638