Assessing Data Efficiency in Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing
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Data efficiency, despite being an attractive characteristic, is often challenging to measure and optimize for in task-oriented semantic parsing; unlike exact match, it can require both model- and domain-specific setups, which have, historically, varied widely across experiments. In our work, as a step towards providing a unified solution to data-efficiency-related questions, we introduce a four-stage protocol which gives an approximate measure of how much in-domain, "target" data a parser requires to achieve a certain quality bar. Specifically, our protocol consists of (1) sampling target subsets of different cardinalities, (2) fine-tuning parsers on each subset, (3) obtaining a smooth curve relating target subset ( referencing the curve to mine ad-hoc (target subset, exact match) points. We apply our protocol in two real-world case studies – model generalizability and intent complexity – illustrating its flexibility and applicability to practitioners in task-oriented semantic parsing.
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