Charlie Roadhouse

Exploring Supervised Approaches to the Detection of Anthropomorphic Language in the Reporting of NLP Venues

We investigate the prevalence of anthropomorphic language in the reporting of AI technology, focussed on NLP and LLMs. We undertake a corpus annotation focussing on one year of ACL long-paper abstracts and news articles from the same period. We find that 74% of ACL abstracts and 88% of news articles…