A dataset for expert reviewer recommendation with large language models as zero-shot rankers

Vanja M. Karan, Stephen McQuistin, Ryo Yanagida, Colin Perkins, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Patrick Healey, Matthew Purver

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Abstract

The task of reviewer recommendation is increasingly important, with main techniques utilizing general models of text relevance. However, state of the art (SotA) systems still have relatively high error rates. Two possible reasons for this are: a lack of large datasets and the fact that large language models (LLMs) have not yet been applied. To fill these gaps, we first create a substantial new dataset, in the domain of Internet specification documents; then we introduce the use of LLMs and evaluate their performance. We find that LLMs with prompting can improve on SotA in some cases, but that they are not a cure-all: this task provides a challenging setting for prompt-based methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 31st international conference on computational linguistics
EditorsOwen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert
Place of PublicationStroudsburg, PA
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages11422-11427
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9798891761964
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2025
Event31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2025 - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 19 Jan 202524 Jan 2025

Publication series

NameProceedings - international conference on computational linguistics, COLING
VolumePart F206484-1
ISSN (Print)2951-2093

Conference

Conference31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2025
Country/TerritoryUnited Arab Emirates
CityAbu Dhabi
Period19/01/2524/01/25

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