Annotation Error Detection: Analyzing the Past and Present for a More Coherent Future

Autor: Jan-Christoph Klie, Bonnie Webber, Iryna Gurevych
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Computational Linguistics, Vol 49, Iss 1 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1530-9312
DOI: 10.1162/coli_a_00464
Popis: Annotated data is an essential ingredient in natural language processing for training and evaluating machine learning models. It is therefore very desirable for the annotations to be of high quality. Recent work, however, has shown that several popular datasets contain a surprising number of annotation errors or inconsistencies. To alleviate this issue, many methods for annotation error detection have been devised over the years. While researchers show that their approaches work well on their newly introduced datasets, they rarely compare their methods to previous work or on the same datasets. This raises strong concerns on methods’ general performance and makes it difficult to assess their strengths and weaknesses. We therefore reimplement 18 methods for detecting potential annotation errors and evaluate them on 9 English datasets for text classification as well as token and span labeling. In addition, we define a uniform evaluation setup including a new formalization of the annotation error detection task, evaluation protocol, and general best practices. To facilitate future research and reproducibility, we release our datasets and implementations in an easy-to-use and open source software package.1
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