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LLM-generated annotations show promise for training smaller literary sentiment models

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Researchers have explored using large language models (LLMs) to generate annotations for literary sentiment analysis, addressing the scarcity of human-annotated data. They fine-tuned five BERT models using annotations from Gemma 4.31B on a ten-point sentiment scale for over 10,000 literary sentences. Evaluation against human-annotated sentences from Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" showed that BERT-large achieved a Kendall's tau of 0.589, closely matching the teacher model's score. The study suggests LLM-generated supervision can aid in developing smaller, domain-specific sentiment analysis models. AI

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LLM-generated annotations show promise for training smaller literary sentiment models

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Artem Suslov, Takehiro Hashimoto ·

    Distilling Literary Sentiment from LLM Annotations into an Ordinal BERT Model

    arXiv:2611.02985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The scarcity of human-annotated literary corpora limits the development of domain-specific sentiment analysis models. This study investigates whether LLM-generated annotations can supervise smaller models for literary sentiment anal…

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