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Title: Chinese UMR annotation: Can LLMs help?
We explore using LLMs, GPT-4 specifically, to generate draft sentence-level Chinese Uniform Meaning Representations (UMRs) that human annotators can revise to speed up the UMR annotation process. In this study, we use few-shot learning and Think-Aloud prompting to guide GPT-4 to generate sentence-level graphs of UMR. Our experimental results show that compared with annotating UMRs from scratch, using LLMs as a preprocessing step reduces the annotation time by two thirds on average. This indicates that there is great potential for integrating LLMs into the pipeline for complicated semantic annotation tasks.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2213805
PAR ID:
10527740
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Bonial, Claire; Bonn, Julia; Hwang, Jena D
Publisher / Repository:
ELRA and ICCL
Date Published:
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.dmr-1.14/
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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