Putting Humans in the Natural Language Processing Loop: A Survey

Zijie J. Wang, Dongjin Choi, Shenyu Xu, Diyi Yang


Abstract
How can we design Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems that learn from human feedback? There is a growing research body of Human-in-the-loop (HITL) NLP frameworks that continuously integrate human feedback to improve the model itself. HITL NLP research is nascent but multifarious—solving various NLP problems, collecting diverse feedback from different people, and applying different methods to learn from human feedback. We present a survey of HITL NLP work from both Machine Learning (ML) and Human-computer Interaction (HCI) communities that highlights its short yet inspiring history, and thoroughly summarize recent frameworks focusing on their tasks, goals, human interactions, and feedback learning methods. Finally, we discuss future studies for integrating human feedback in the NLP development loop.
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2021.hcinlp-1.8
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bridging Human–Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing
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April
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2021
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Online
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Su Lin Blodgett, Michael Madaio, Brendan O'Connor, Hanna Wallach, Qian Yang
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HCINLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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47–52
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Zijie J. Wang, Dongjin Choi, Shenyu Xu, and Diyi Yang. 2021. Putting Humans in the Natural Language Processing Loop: A Survey. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bridging Human–Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing, pages 47–52, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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