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Format Matters: A Critical Evaluation of Output Formats for Prompting LLMs in SLU and NER
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Format Matters: A Critical Evaluation of Output Formats for Prompting LLMs in SLU and NER
Output format is often an unreported factor in LLM evaluations for structured NLP tasks such as Slot Filling or Named Entity Recognition. This work proposes to explore the impact of the output structured format generated by LLMs. We show that measured performance and reliability depend on the requested format (JSON, XML or inline Key-Values). A study is performed across four SLU and three NER benchmarks and considering 13 instruction-tuned open-weight LLMs, using standardized and open-source prompts and parsers. This format-specific evaluation reveals statistically significant swings of 2-46 F1 points depending on model and dataset. Additionally, we propose a lightweight selection procedure to determine the best format per model-dataset combination using only a small development slice; thus reducing trial-and-error in practice.
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