Improving Explainability of Sentence-level Metrics via Edit-level Attribution for Grammatical Error Correction
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Various evaluation metrics have been proposed for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC), but many, particularly reference-free metrics, lack explainability.This lack of explainability hinders researchers from analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of GEC models and limits the ability to provide detailed feedback for users.To address this issue, we propose attributing sentence-level scores to individual edits, providing insight into how specific corrections contribute to the overall performance.For the attribution method, we use Shapley values, from cooperative game theory, to compute the contribution of each edit.Experiments with existing sentence-level metrics demonstrate high consistency across different edit granularities and show approximately 70% alignment with human evaluations.In addition, we analyze biases in the metrics based on the attribution results, revealing trends such as the tendency to ignore orthographic edits.Our implementation is available
Authors: Takumi Goto, Justin Vasselli, Taro Watanabe
Institution: Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4412889405