Week 4

I sampled 30 comments from panthers’ dataset, masked/highlighted the teamname (as teamnames can be used as gold labels), and fed it into the gpt4 for model annotation. To instruct the gpt4 for the task, I formulated prompts. The following one is an example for the masked task.


We are interested in how the writer of a reddit comment feels towards/in connection with the people they’re talking about. You will be asked to annotate for masked entities in a comment - examples are shown below the instructions.

Instructions

Read the text carefully. We are interested in how sports fans online talk about the team they support, or players in the team they support, versus opposing teams/players.

You will be reading comments by sports fans before/during/after a game between their team and an opponent. Comments are usually about one of the teams, or a player from the teams, and we want to understand how fans talk about them.

We have replaced the mentioned team name in a comment with [ENT]. Your task is to guess if the [ENT] the commenter is talking about refers to the fan’s team or the opponent based on the rest of the comment.

Sometimes it might be the case that [ENT] can refer to either the team the speaker supports or an opponent. You can choose the either option if you think [ENT] is ambiguous. But first, make your strongest guess if the reference is to their team or the opponent.

If there are multiple masked words in a sentence, it’s possible they refer to different groups. Therefore, make sure to analyze each one individually based on its context.

As output, please copy the whole sentence and replace [ENT] with one of [IN] if it refers to fan’s team, [OUT] if it refers to the opponent, or [EITHER] if either works.

Note: please annotate all and only [ENT]s!

Here are examples of each

fan’s team: Also I miss [ENT], [ENT] was always great on 3rd downs Annotation: Also I miss [IN], [IN] was always great on 3rd downs

opponent: Everything going [ENT] way so far….[ENT] are fucking going to win this game arent they Annotation: Everything going [OUT] way so far….[OUT] are fucking going to win this game arent they

either: Uh [ENT], what are you doing? Annotation: Uh [EITHER], what are you doing?

Now annotate this comment using the format above, using only the 3 labels defined above in your answers, and following all instructions given above. Return only the answer dictionary object.


It’s worth noticing that even a slight difference in wording results in discrepant accuracies. Using this wording of the prompt, the accuracy for masked annotation is 75% and that for highlighted (unmasked) annotation is 84.38%. The accuracy is fairly high. The next step is to understand how human performs on this task.

Written on June 16, 2023