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Annotation Artifacts in Natural Language Inference Data

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Gururangan, Suchin, Swayamdipta, Swabha, Levy, Omer, Schwartz, Roy, Bowman, Samuel, Smith, Noah A.·2018·Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)

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Suchin Gururangan, Swabha Swayamdipta, Omer Levy, Roy Schwartz, Samuel Bowman, Noah A. Smith. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers). 2018.

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  • An NLP expert wrote negations of existing claims, taking precautions not to bias the negations by using obvious keywords like 'not'.

    “To obtain examples where an abstract REFUTES a claim, an NLP expert wrote negations of existing claims, taking precautions not to bias the negations by using obvious keywords like 'not' (Schuster et al., 2019; Gururangan et al., 2018).”

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    The Introduction and the Entailment section report that negation words are strong cues for contradiction, supporting the concern about keyword bias. They do not say that an NLP expert wrote negations of existing claims or took precautions to avoid such keywords when creating REFUTES examples. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • Deep Neural Networks have been proven to easily learn biases from the data, which significantly impacts their reliability.

    “Deep Neural Networks have been proven to easily learn biases from the data, which significantly impacts their reliability.”

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    Section 4, “Re-evaluating NLI Models,” finds that high-performing NLI models rely heavily on annotation artifacts and perform substantially worse on harder examples, calling their apparent ability into question. This supports the point for the NLI models studied, but not the broader claim about deep neural networks generally. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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  • Most prior entailment datasets have been human-authored, which is known to introduce artifacts, or collected in the wild, which is challenging to scale.

    “Most prior entailment datasets have been human-authored (Bowman et al., 2015;Williams et al., 2018), which is known to introduce artifacts (Gururangan et al., 2018), or collected in the wild (Kamoi et al., 2023), which is challenging to scale.”

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Gururangan, S., Swayamdipta, S., Levy, O., Schwartz, R., Bowman, S., & Smith, N. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Carnegie Mellon University (US)
  • Google (United States) (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)
Published
2018
Pages
107-112
OpenAlex
W2790415926
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conference paper
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en
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cc-by
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  • Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (cc-by)
Funders
  • Nvidia
  • Tencent
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Samsung
  • Army Research Office (W911NF-15-1-, W911NF, W911NF-15)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Keywords
annotation artifacts, natural language inference, annotated dataset, manual annotation, annotation errors

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