Can LLMs Augment Low-Resource Reading Comprehension Datasets? Opportunities and Challenges

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12426v2
• Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:35:17 GMT
• Title: Can LLMs Augment Low-Resource Reading Comprehension Datasets? Opportunities and Challenges
• Authors: Vinay Samuel, Houda Aynaou, Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury, Karthik Venkat Ramanan, Aman Chadha,
• Abstract summary: GPT-4 can be used to augment existing reading comprehension datasets. This work serves to be the first analysis of LLMs as synthetic data augmenters for QA systems.
• Score: 3.130575840003799
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive zero shot performance on a wide range of NLP tasks, demonstrating the ability to reason and apply commonsense. A relevant application is to use them for creating high quality synthetic datasets for downstream tasks. In this work, we probe whether GPT-4 can be used to augment existing extractive reading comprehension datasets. Automating data annotation processes has the potential to save large amounts of time, money and effort that goes into manually labelling datasets. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of GPT-4 as a replacement for human annotators for low resource reading comprehension tasks, by comparing performance after fine tuning, and the cost associated with annotation. This work serves to be the first analysis of LLMs as synthetic data augmenters for QA systems, highlighting the unique opportunities and challenges. Additionally, we release augmented versions of low resource datasets, that will allow the research community to create further benchmarks for evaluation of generated datasets.

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