@inproceedings{strakova-etal-2023-extending,
    title = "Extending an Event-type Ontology: Adding Verbs and Classes Using Fine-tuned {LLM}s Suggestions",
    author = "Strakov{\'a}, Jana  and
      Fu{\v{c}}{\'\i}kov{\'a}, Eva  and
      Haji{\v{c}}, Jan  and
      Ure{\v{s}}ov{\'a}, Zde{\v{n}}ka",
    editor = "Prange, Jakob  and
      Friedrich, Annemarie",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.law-1.9",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.law-1.9",
    pages = "85--95",
    abstract = "In this project, we have investigated the use of advanced machine learning methods, specifically fine-tuned large language models, for pre-annotating data for a lexical extension task, namely adding descriptive words (verbs) to an existing (but incomplete, as of yet) ontology of event types. Several research questions have been focused on, from the investigation of a possible heuristics to provide at least hints to annotators which verbs to include and which are outside the current version of the ontology, to the possible use of the automatic scores to help the annotators to be more efficient in finding a threshold for identifying verbs that cannot be assigned to any existing class and therefore they are to be used as seeds for a new class. We have also carefully examined the correlation of the automatic scores with the human annotation. While the correlation turned out to be strong, its influence on the annotation proper is modest due to its near linearity, even though the mere fact of such pre-annotation leads to relatively short annotation times.",
}

In this project, we have investigated the use of advanced machine learning methods, specifically fine-tuned large language models, for pre-annotating data for a lexical extension task, namely adding descriptive words (verbs) to an existing (but incomplete, as of yet) ontology of event types. Several research questions have been focused on, from the investigation of a possible heuristics to provide at least hints to annotators which verbs to include and which are outside the current version of the ontology, to the possible use of the automatic scores to help the annotators to be more efficient in finding a threshold for identifying verbs that cannot be assigned to any existing class and therefore they are to be used as seeds for a new class. We have also carefully examined the correlation of the automatic scores with the human annotation. While the correlation turned out to be strong, its influence on the annotation proper is modest due to its near linearity, even though the mere fact of such pre-annotation leads to relatively short annotation times.
Strakov{\'a}, Jana Fu{\v{c}}{\'\i}kov{\'a}, Eva Haji{\v{c}}, Jan Ure{\v{s}}ov{\'a}, Zde{\v{n}}ka
Extending an Event-type Ontology: Adding Verbs and Classes Using Fine-tuned LLMs Suggestions