Do LLMs Implicitly Determine the Suitable Text Difficulty for Users?

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Main Authors: Gobara, Seiji, Kamigaito, Hidetaka, Watanabe, Taro
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author Gobara, Seiji
Kamigaito, Hidetaka
Watanabe, Taro
author_facet Gobara, Seiji
Kamigaito, Hidetaka
Watanabe, Taro
contents Education that suits the individual learning level is necessary to improve students' understanding. The first step in achieving this purpose by using large language models (LLMs) is to adjust the textual difficulty of the response to students. This work analyzes how LLMs can implicitly adjust text difficulty between user input and its generated text. To conduct the experiments, we created a new dataset from Stack-Overflow to explore the performance of question-answering-based conversation. Experimental results on the Stack-Overflow dataset and the TSCC dataset, including multi-turn conversation show that LLMs can implicitly handle text difficulty between user input and its generated response. We also observed that some LLMs can surpass humans in handling text difficulty and the importance of instruction-tuning.
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spellingShingle Do LLMs Implicitly Determine the Suitable Text Difficulty for Users?
Gobara, Seiji
Kamigaito, Hidetaka
Watanabe, Taro
Computation and Language
Education that suits the individual learning level is necessary to improve students' understanding. The first step in achieving this purpose by using large language models (LLMs) is to adjust the textual difficulty of the response to students. This work analyzes how LLMs can implicitly adjust text difficulty between user input and its generated text. To conduct the experiments, we created a new dataset from Stack-Overflow to explore the performance of question-answering-based conversation. Experimental results on the Stack-Overflow dataset and the TSCC dataset, including multi-turn conversation show that LLMs can implicitly handle text difficulty between user input and its generated response. We also observed that some LLMs can surpass humans in handling text difficulty and the importance of instruction-tuning.
title Do LLMs Implicitly Determine the Suitable Text Difficulty for Users?
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14453