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ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks

arXiv:2303.15056 · doi:10.1073/pnas.2305016120

Abstract

Many NLP applications require manual data annotations for a variety of tasks, notably to train classifiers or evaluate the performance of unsupervised models. Depending on the size and degree of complexity, the tasks may be conducted by crowd-workers on platforms such as MTurk as well as trained annotators, such as research assistants. Using a sample of 2,382 tweets, we demonstrate that ChatGPT outperforms crowd-workers for several annotation tasks, including relevance, stance, topics, and frames detection. Specifically, the zero-shot accuracy of ChatGPT exceeds that of crowd-workers for four out of five tasks, while ChatGPT's intercoder agreement exceeds that of both crowd-workers and trained annotators for all tasks. Moreover, the per-annotation cost of ChatGPT is less than $0.003 -- about twenty times cheaper than MTurk. These results show the potential of large language models to drastically increase the efficiency of text classification.

Gilardi, Fabrizio, Meysam Alizadeh, and Maël Kubli. 2023. "ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(30): e2305016120

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