Abstract
We employ a characterization of linguistic complexity from psycholinguistic and language acquisition research to develop data-driven curricula to understand the underlying linguistic knowledge that models learn to address NLP tasks. The novelty of our approach is in the development of linguistic curricula derived from data, existing knowledge about linguistic complexity, and model behavior during training. Through the evaluation of several benchmark NLP datasets, our curriculum learning approaches identify sets of linguistic metrics (indices) that inform the challenges and reasoning required to address each task. Our work will inform future research in all NLP areas, allowing linguistic complexity to be considered early in the research and development process. In addition, our work prompts an examination of gold standards and fair evaluation in NLP.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.emnlp-main.834
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Singapore
- Editors:
- Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 13526–13542
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.834
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.834
- Cite (ACL):
- Mohamed Elgaar and Hadi Amiri. 2023. Ling-CL: Understanding NLP Models through Linguistic Curricula. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 13526–13542, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Ling-CL: Understanding NLP Models through Linguistic Curricula (Elgaar & Amiri, EMNLP 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2024-05/2023.emnlp-main.834.pdf