PromptSource: An Integrated Development Environment and Repository for Natural Language Prompts

Stephen Bach, Victor Sanh, Zheng Xin Yong, Albert Webson, Colin Raffel, BIG-Science contributors including, Andrea Santilli
June, 2022
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Abstract

PromptSource is a system for creating, sharing, and using natural language prompts. Prompts are functions that map an example from a dataset to a natural language input and target output. Using prompts to train and query language models is an emerging area in NLP that requires new tools that let users develop and refine these prompts collaboratively. PromptSource addresses the emergent challenges in this new setting with (1) a templating language for defining data-linked prompts, (2) an interface that lets users quickly iterate on prompt development by observing outputs of their prompts on many examples, and (3) a community-driven set of guidelines for contributing new prompts to a common pool. Over 2,000 prompts for roughly 170 datasets are already available in PromptSource. PromptSource is available at https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/promptsource.

Publication
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
Andrea Santilli
Andrea Santilli
PhD Student

PhD Student passionate about natural language processing, representation learning and machine intelligence.