Evaluating the Impact of LLM-Assisted Annotation in a Perspectivized Setting: The Case of FrameNet Annotation

Frederico Belcavello, Ely E. Matos, Arthur Lorenzi, Lisandra Bonoto, Livia Pádua Ruiz, Luiz Fernando Pereira, Victor Herbst, Yulla Liquer Navarro, Helen de Andrade Abreu, Lívia Vicente Dutra, Tiago Timponi Torrent


Abstract
The use of LLM-based applications as a means to accelerate and/or substitute human labor in the creation of language resources and datasets is a reality. Nonetheless, despite the potential of such tools for linguistic research, an evaluation of their performance and impact on the creation of annotated datasets, especially under a perspectivized approach to NLP, is still missing. This paper contributes to the reduction of this gap by reporting on an extensive evaluation of the (semi-)automatization of FrameNet-like semantic annotation by the use of an LLM-based semantic role labeler. The methodology employed compares annotation time, coverage, and diversity in three experimental settings: manual, automatic, and semi-automatic annotation. Results show that the hybrid, semi-automatic annotation setting leads to increased frame diversity and similar annotation coverage, when compared to the human-only setting, while the automatic setting performs considerably worse in all metrics, except for annotation time, which remains similar.
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2026.isa-1.9
Volume:
Proceedings of the 22nd Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation and Representation (ISA-22) @ LREC 2026
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May
Year:
2026
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Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
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Harry Bunt
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ISA | WS
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ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
77–87
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-isa-09
DOI:
10.63317/36ot28es26u8
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Frederico Belcavello, Ely E. Matos, Arthur Lorenzi, Lisandra Bonoto, Livia Pádua Ruiz, Luiz Fernando Pereira, Victor Herbst, Yulla Liquer Navarro, Helen de Andrade Abreu, Lívia Vicente Dutra, and Tiago Timponi Torrent. 2026. Evaluating the Impact of LLM-Assisted Annotation in a Perspectivized Setting: The Case of FrameNet Annotation. In Proceedings of the 22nd Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation and Representation (ISA-22) @ LREC 2026, pages 77–87, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Evaluating the Impact of LLM-Assisted Annotation in a Perspectivized Setting: The Case of FrameNet Annotation (Belcavello et al., ISA 2026)
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