EXCGEC: A Benchmark for Edit-Wise Explainable Chinese Grammatical Error Correction

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Main Authors: Ye, Jingheng, Qin, Shang, Li, Yinghui, Cheng, Xuxin, Qin, Libo, Zheng, Hai-Tao, Shen, Ying, Xing, Peng, Xu, Zishan, Cheng, Guo, Jiang, Wenhao
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author Ye, Jingheng
Qin, Shang
Li, Yinghui
Cheng, Xuxin
Qin, Libo
Zheng, Hai-Tao
Shen, Ying
Xing, Peng
Xu, Zishan
Cheng, Guo
Jiang, Wenhao
author_facet Ye, Jingheng
Qin, Shang
Li, Yinghui
Cheng, Xuxin
Qin, Libo
Zheng, Hai-Tao
Shen, Ying
Xing, Peng
Xu, Zishan
Cheng, Guo
Jiang, Wenhao
contents Existing studies explore the explainability of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) in a limited scenario, where they ignore the interaction between corrections and explanations and have not established a corresponding comprehensive benchmark. To bridge the gap, this paper first introduces the task of EXplainable GEC (EXGEC), which focuses on the integral role of correction and explanation tasks. To facilitate the task, we propose EXCGEC, a tailored benchmark for Chinese EXGEC consisting of 8,216 explanation-augmented samples featuring the design of hybrid edit-wise explanations. We then benchmark several series of LLMs in multi-task learning settings, including post-explaining and pre-explaining. To promote the development of the task, we also build a comprehensive evaluation suite by leveraging existing automatic metrics and conducting human evaluation experiments to demonstrate the human consistency of the automatic metrics for free-text explanations. Our experiments reveal the effectiveness of evaluating free-text explanations using traditional metrics like METEOR and ROUGE, and the inferior performance of multi-task models compared to the pipeline solution, indicating its challenges to establish positive effects in learning both tasks.
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spellingShingle EXCGEC: A Benchmark for Edit-Wise Explainable Chinese Grammatical Error Correction
Ye, Jingheng
Qin, Shang
Li, Yinghui
Cheng, Xuxin
Qin, Libo
Zheng, Hai-Tao
Shen, Ying
Xing, Peng
Xu, Zishan
Cheng, Guo
Jiang, Wenhao
Computation and Language
Existing studies explore the explainability of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) in a limited scenario, where they ignore the interaction between corrections and explanations and have not established a corresponding comprehensive benchmark. To bridge the gap, this paper first introduces the task of EXplainable GEC (EXGEC), which focuses on the integral role of correction and explanation tasks. To facilitate the task, we propose EXCGEC, a tailored benchmark for Chinese EXGEC consisting of 8,216 explanation-augmented samples featuring the design of hybrid edit-wise explanations. We then benchmark several series of LLMs in multi-task learning settings, including post-explaining and pre-explaining. To promote the development of the task, we also build a comprehensive evaluation suite by leveraging existing automatic metrics and conducting human evaluation experiments to demonstrate the human consistency of the automatic metrics for free-text explanations. Our experiments reveal the effectiveness of evaluating free-text explanations using traditional metrics like METEOR and ROUGE, and the inferior performance of multi-task models compared to the pipeline solution, indicating its challenges to establish positive effects in learning both tasks.
title EXCGEC: A Benchmark for Edit-Wise Explainable Chinese Grammatical Error Correction
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00924