Towards Automating Text Annotation: A Case Study on Semantic Proximity Annotation using GPT-4

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Hauptverfasser: Yadav, Sachin, Choppa, Tejaswi, Schlechtweg, Dominik
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Yadav, Sachin
Choppa, Tejaswi
Schlechtweg, Dominik
author_facet Yadav, Sachin
Choppa, Tejaswi
Schlechtweg, Dominik
contents This paper explores using GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 to automate the data annotation process with automatic prompting techniques. The main aim of this paper is to reuse human annotation guidelines along with some annotated data to design automatic prompts for LLMs, focusing on the semantic proximity annotation task. Automatic prompts are compared to customized prompts. We further implement the prompting strategies into an open-source text annotation tool, enabling easy online use via the OpenAI API. Our study reveals the crucial role of accurate prompt design and suggests that prompting GPT-4 with human-like instructions is not straightforwardly possible for the semantic proximity task. We show that small modifications to the human guidelines already improve the performance, suggesting possible ways for future research.
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spellingShingle Towards Automating Text Annotation: A Case Study on Semantic Proximity Annotation using GPT-4
Yadav, Sachin
Choppa, Tejaswi
Schlechtweg, Dominik
Computation and Language
This paper explores using GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 to automate the data annotation process with automatic prompting techniques. The main aim of this paper is to reuse human annotation guidelines along with some annotated data to design automatic prompts for LLMs, focusing on the semantic proximity annotation task. Automatic prompts are compared to customized prompts. We further implement the prompting strategies into an open-source text annotation tool, enabling easy online use via the OpenAI API. Our study reveals the crucial role of accurate prompt design and suggests that prompting GPT-4 with human-like instructions is not straightforwardly possible for the semantic proximity task. We show that small modifications to the human guidelines already improve the performance, suggesting possible ways for future research.
title Towards Automating Text Annotation: A Case Study on Semantic Proximity Annotation using GPT-4
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04130