How well ChatGPT understand Malaysian English? An Evaluation on Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction

Mohanraj Chanthran, Lay-Ki Soon, Ong Huey Fang, Bhawani Selvaretnam


Abstract
Recently, ChatGPT has attracted a lot of interest from both researchers and the general public. While the performance of ChatGPT in Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction from Standard English texts is satisfactory, it remains to be seen if it can perform similarly for Malaysian English. Malaysian English is unique as it exhibits morphosyntactic and semantical adaptation from local contexts. In this study, we assess ChatGPT’s capability in extracting entities and relations from the Malaysian English News (MEN) dataset. We propose a three-step methodology referred to as educate-predict-evaluate. The performance of ChatGPT is assessed using F1-Score across 18 unique prompt settings, which were carefully engineered for a comprehensive review. From our evaluation, we found that ChatGPT does not perform well in extracting entities from Malaysian English news articles, with the highest F1-Score of 0.497. Further analysis shows that the morphosyntactic adaptation in Malaysian English caused the limitation. However, interestingly, this morphosyntactic adaptation does not impact the performance of ChatGPT for relation extraction.
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2023.gem-1.30
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM)
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Sebastian Gehrmann, Alex Wang, João Sedoc, Elizabeth Clark, Kaustubh Dhole, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Enrico Santus, Hooman Sedghamiz
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GEM | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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372–397
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Mohanraj Chanthran, Lay-Ki Soon, Ong Huey Fang, and Bhawani Selvaretnam. 2023. How well ChatGPT understand Malaysian English? An Evaluation on Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), pages 372–397, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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How well ChatGPT understand Malaysian English? An Evaluation on Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction (Chanthran et al., GEM-WS 2023)
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