Contextualizing the Limits of Model & Evaluation Dataset Curation on Semantic Similarity Classification Tasks

Daniel Theron


Abstract
This paper demonstrates how the limitations of pre-trained models and open evaluation datasets factor into assessing the performance of binary semantic similarity classification tasks. As (1) end-user-facing documentation around the curation of these datasets and pre-trained model training regimes is often not easily accessible and (2) given the lower friction and higher demand to quickly deploy such systems in real-world contexts, our study reinforces prior work showing performance disparities across datasets, embedding techniques and distance metrics, while highlighting the importance of understanding how data is collected, curated and analyzed in semantic similarity classification.
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2023.gem-1.1
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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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1–8
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Daniel Theron. 2023. Contextualizing the Limits of Model & Evaluation Dataset Curation on Semantic Similarity Classification Tasks. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), pages 1–8, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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