Leveraging pre-trained language models for linguistic analysis: A case of argument structure constructions

Hakyung Sung, Kristopher Kyle


Abstract
This study evaluates the effectiveness of pre-trained language models in identifying argument structure constructions, important for modeling both first and second language learning. We examine three methodologies: (1) supervised training with RoBERTa using a gold-standard ASC treebank, including by-tag accuracy evaluation for sentences from both native and non-native English speakers, (2) prompt-guided annotation with GPT-4, and (3) generating training data through prompts with GPT-4, followed by RoBERTa training. Our findings indicate that RoBERTa trained on gold-standard data shows the best performance. While data generated through GPT-4 enhances training, it does not exceed the benchmarks set by gold-standard data.
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2024.emnlp-main.415
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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7302–7314
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Hakyung Sung and Kristopher Kyle. 2024. Leveraging pre-trained language models for linguistic analysis: A case of argument structure constructions. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 7302–7314, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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