Comparing Pre-trained Human Language Models: Is it Better with Human Context as Groups, Individual Traits, or Both?

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Main Authors: Soni, Nikita, Balasubramanian, Niranjan, Schwartz, H. Andrew, Hovy, Dirk
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author Soni, Nikita
Balasubramanian, Niranjan
Schwartz, H. Andrew
Hovy, Dirk
author_facet Soni, Nikita
Balasubramanian, Niranjan
Schwartz, H. Andrew
Hovy, Dirk
contents Pre-trained language models consider the context of neighboring words and documents but lack any author context of the human generating the text. However, language depends on the author's states, traits, social, situational, and environmental attributes, collectively referred to as human context (Soni et al., 2024). Human-centered natural language processing requires incorporating human context into language models. Currently, two methods exist: pre-training with 1) group-wise attributes (e.g., over-45-year-olds) or 2) individual traits. Group attributes are simple but coarse -- not all 45-year-olds write the same way -- while individual traits allow for more personalized representations, but require more complex modeling and data. It is unclear which approach benefits what tasks. We compare pre-training models with human context via 1) group attributes, 2) individual users, and 3) a combined approach on five user- and document-level tasks. Our results show that there is no best approach, but that human-centered language modeling holds avenues for different methods.
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spellingShingle Comparing Pre-trained Human Language Models: Is it Better with Human Context as Groups, Individual Traits, or Both?
Soni, Nikita
Balasubramanian, Niranjan
Schwartz, H. Andrew
Hovy, Dirk
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Pre-trained language models consider the context of neighboring words and documents but lack any author context of the human generating the text. However, language depends on the author's states, traits, social, situational, and environmental attributes, collectively referred to as human context (Soni et al., 2024). Human-centered natural language processing requires incorporating human context into language models. Currently, two methods exist: pre-training with 1) group-wise attributes (e.g., over-45-year-olds) or 2) individual traits. Group attributes are simple but coarse -- not all 45-year-olds write the same way -- while individual traits allow for more personalized representations, but require more complex modeling and data. It is unclear which approach benefits what tasks. We compare pre-training models with human context via 1) group attributes, 2) individual users, and 3) a combined approach on five user- and document-level tasks. Our results show that there is no best approach, but that human-centered language modeling holds avenues for different methods.
title Comparing Pre-trained Human Language Models: Is it Better with Human Context as Groups, Individual Traits, or Both?
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12492