An Information-Theoretic Approach to Analyze NLP Classification Tasks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00978v1
• Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 19:49:44 GMT
• Title: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Analyze NLP Classification Tasks
• Authors: Luran Wang, Mark Gales, Vatsal Raina
• Abstract summary: This work provides an information-theoretic framework to analyse the influence of inputs for text classification tasks. Each text element has two components: an associated semantic meaning and a linguistic realization. Multiple-choice reading comprehension (MCRC) and sentiment classification (SC) are selected to showcase the framework.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Understanding the importance of the inputs on the output is useful across many tasks. This work provides an information-theoretic framework to analyse the influence of inputs for text classification tasks. Natural language processing (NLP) tasks take either a single element input or multiple element inputs to predict an output variable, where an element is a block of text. Each text element has two components: an associated semantic meaning and a linguistic realization. Multiple-choice reading comprehension (MCRC) and sentiment classification (SC) are selected to showcase the framework. For MCRC, it is found that the context influence on the output compared to the question influence reduces on more challenging datasets. In particular, more challenging contexts allow a greater variation in complexity of questions. Hence, test creators need to carefully consider the choice of the context when designing multiple-choice questions for assessment. For SC, it is found the semantic meaning of the input text dominates (above 80\% for all datasets considered) compared to its linguistic realisation when determining the sentiment. The framework is made available at: https://github.com/WangLuran/nlp-element-influence

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