Cross-replication Reliability - An Empirical Approach to Interpreting Inter-rater Reliability

Ka Wong, Praveen Paritosh, Lora Aroyo


Abstract
When collecting annotations and labeled data from humans, a standard practice is to use inter-rater reliability (IRR) as a measure of data goodness (Hallgren, 2012). Metrics such as Krippendorff’s alpha or Cohen’s kappa are typically required to be above a threshold of 0.6 (Landis and Koch, 1977). These absolute thresholds are unreasonable for crowdsourced data from annotators with high cultural and training variances, especially on subjective topics. We present a new alternative to interpreting IRR that is more empirical and contextualized. It is based upon benchmarking IRR against baseline measures in a replication, one of which is a novel cross-replication reliability (xRR) measure based on Cohen’s (1960) kappa. We call this approach the xRR framework. We opensource a replication dataset of 4 million human judgements of facial expressions and analyze it with the proposed framework. We argue this framework can be used to measure the quality of crowdsourced datasets.
Anthology ID:
2021.acl-long.548
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Chengqing Zong, Fei Xia, Wenjie Li, Roberto Navigli
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ACL | IJCNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
7053–7065
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.548
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.548
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Cite (ACL):
Ka Wong, Praveen Paritosh, and Lora Aroyo. 2021. Cross-replication Reliability - An Empirical Approach to Interpreting Inter-rater Reliability. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 7053–7065, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Cross-replication Reliability - An Empirical Approach to Interpreting Inter-rater Reliability (Wong et al., ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.548.pdf
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Data
ImageNet