Reframing Human-AI Collaboration for Generating Free-Text Explanations
Sarah Wiegreffe, Jack Hessel, Swabha Swayamdipta, Mark Riedl, Yejin Choi
Abstract
Large language models are increasingly capable of generating fluent-appearing text with relatively little task-specific supervision. But can these models accurately explain classification decisions? We consider the task of generating free-text explanations using human-written examples in a few-shot manner. We find that (1) authoring higher quality prompts results in higher quality generations; and (2) surprisingly, in a head-to-head comparison, crowdworkers often prefer explanations generated by GPT-3 to crowdsourced explanations in existing datasets. Our human studies also show, however, that while models often produce factual, grammatical, and sufficient explanations, they have room to improve along axes such as providing novel information and supporting the label. We create a pipeline that combines GPT-3 with a supervised filter that incorporates binary acceptability judgments from humans in the loop. Despite the intrinsic subjectivity of acceptability judgments, we demonstrate that acceptability is partially correlated with various fine-grained attributes of explanations. Our approach is able to consistently filter GPT-3-generated explanations deemed acceptable by humans.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.naacl-main.47
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Seattle, United States
- Editors:
- Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 632–658
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.47
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.47
- Cite (ACL):
- Sarah Wiegreffe, Jack Hessel, Swabha Swayamdipta, Mark Riedl, and Yejin Choi. 2022. Reframing Human-AI Collaboration for Generating Free-Text Explanations. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 632–658, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Reframing Human-AI Collaboration for Generating Free-Text Explanations (Wiegreffe et al., NAACL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/2022.naacl-main.47.pdf
- Code
- allenai/few_shot_explanations
- Data
- CoS-E, CommonsenseQA, ECQA, SNLI, e-SNLI