Few-Shot Self-Rationalization with Natural Language Prompts

Anonymous

Paper Link: https://openreview.net/forum?id=awj1UmAX6l1

Paper Type: Long paper (up to eight pages of content + unlimited references and appendices)

Abstract: Self-rationalization models that predict task labels and generate free-text elaborations for their predictions could enable more intuitive interaction with NLP systems. These models are, however, currently trained with a large amount of human-written free-text explanations for each task which hinders their broader usage. We propose to study a more realistic setting of self-rationalization using few training examples. We present FEB---a standardized collection of four existing English-language datasets and associated metrics. We identify the right prompting approach by extensively exploring natural language prompts on FEB. Then, by using this prompt and scaling the model size, we demonstrate that making progress on few-shot self-rationalization is possible. We show there is still ample room for improvement in this task: the average plausibility of generated explanations assessed by human annotators is at most 51% (with GPT-3), while plausibility of human explanations is 76%. We hope that FEB and our proposed approach will spur the community to take on the few-shot self-rationalization challenge.

Copyright Consent Signature (type Name Or NA If Not Transferrable): Ana Marasovic

Copyright Consent Name And Address: Allen Institute for AI, 2157 N Northlake Way #110, Seattle, WA 98103