A Simple Yet Strong Domain-Agnostic De-bias Method for Zero-Shot Sentiment Classification

Yang Zhao, Tetsuya Nasukawa, Masayasu Muraoka, Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee


Abstract
Zero-shot prompt-based learning has made much progress in sentiment analysis, and considerable effort has been dedicated to designing high-performing prompt templates. However, two problems exist; First, large language models are often biased to their pre-training data, leading to poor performance in prompt templates that models have rarely seen. Second, in order to adapt to different domains, re-designing prompt templates is usually required, which is time-consuming and inefficient. To remedy both shortcomings, we propose a simple yet strong data construction method to de-bias a given prompt template, yielding a large performance improvement in sentiment analysis tasks across different domains, pre-trained language models, and prompt templates. Also, we demonstrate the advantage of using domain-agnostic generic responses over the in-domain ground-truth data.
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2023.findings-acl.242
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3923–3931
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.242
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.242
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Yang Zhao, Tetsuya Nasukawa, Masayasu Muraoka, and Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee. 2023. A Simple Yet Strong Domain-Agnostic De-bias Method for Zero-Shot Sentiment Classification. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 3923–3931, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Simple Yet Strong Domain-Agnostic De-bias Method for Zero-Shot Sentiment Classification (Zhao et al., Findings 2023)
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