Annotator-Centric Active Learning for Subjective NLP Tasks

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Auteurs principaux: van der Meer, Michiel, Falk, Neele, Murukannaiah, Pradeep K., Liscio, Enrico
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Publié: 2024
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author van der Meer, Michiel
Falk, Neele
Murukannaiah, Pradeep K.
Liscio, Enrico
author_facet van der Meer, Michiel
Falk, Neele
Murukannaiah, Pradeep K.
Liscio, Enrico
contents Active Learning (AL) addresses the high costs of collecting human annotations by strategically annotating the most informative samples. However, for subjective NLP tasks, incorporating a wide range of perspectives in the annotation process is crucial to capture the variability in human judgments. We introduce Annotator-Centric Active Learning (ACAL), which incorporates an annotator selection strategy following data sampling. Our objective is two-fold: 1) to efficiently approximate the full diversity of human judgments, and 2) to assess model performance using annotator-centric metrics, which value minority and majority perspectives equally. We experiment with multiple annotator selection strategies across seven subjective NLP tasks, employing both traditional and novel, human-centered evaluation metrics. Our findings indicate that ACAL improves data efficiency and excels in annotator-centric performance evaluations. However, its success depends on the availability of a sufficiently large and diverse pool of annotators to sample from.
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spellingShingle Annotator-Centric Active Learning for Subjective NLP Tasks
van der Meer, Michiel
Falk, Neele
Murukannaiah, Pradeep K.
Liscio, Enrico
Computation and Language
Active Learning (AL) addresses the high costs of collecting human annotations by strategically annotating the most informative samples. However, for subjective NLP tasks, incorporating a wide range of perspectives in the annotation process is crucial to capture the variability in human judgments. We introduce Annotator-Centric Active Learning (ACAL), which incorporates an annotator selection strategy following data sampling. Our objective is two-fold: 1) to efficiently approximate the full diversity of human judgments, and 2) to assess model performance using annotator-centric metrics, which value minority and majority perspectives equally. We experiment with multiple annotator selection strategies across seven subjective NLP tasks, employing both traditional and novel, human-centered evaluation metrics. Our findings indicate that ACAL improves data efficiency and excels in annotator-centric performance evaluations. However, its success depends on the availability of a sufficiently large and diverse pool of annotators to sample from.
title Annotator-Centric Active Learning for Subjective NLP Tasks
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15720