An Interpretable and Crosslingual Method for Evaluating Second-Language Dialogues

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Autores principales: Gao, Rena, Wu, Jingxuan, Wu, Xuetong, Roever, Carsten, Wu, Jing, Lv, Long, Lau, Jey Han
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author Gao, Rena
Wu, Jingxuan
Wu, Xuetong
Roever, Carsten
Wu, Jing
Lv, Long
Lau, Jey Han
author_facet Gao, Rena
Wu, Jingxuan
Wu, Xuetong
Roever, Carsten
Wu, Jing
Lv, Long
Lau, Jey Han
contents We analyse the cross-lingual transferability of a dialogue evaluation framework that assesses the relationships between micro-level linguistic features (e.g. backchannels) and macro-level interactivity labels (e.g. topic management), originally designed for English-as-a-second-language dialogues. To this end, we develop CNIMA (Chinese Non-Native Interactivity Measurement and Automation), a Chinese-as-a-second-language labelled dataset with 10K dialogues. We found the evaluation framework to be robust across distinct languages: English and Chinese, revealing language-specific and language-universal relationships between micro-level and macro-level features. Next, we propose an automated, interpretable approach with low data requirement that scores the overall quality of a second-language dialogue based on the framework. Our approach is interpretable in that it reveals the key linguistic and interactivity features that contributed to the overall quality score. As our approach does not require labelled data, it can also be adapted to other languages for second-language dialogue evaluation.
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spellingShingle An Interpretable and Crosslingual Method for Evaluating Second-Language Dialogues
Gao, Rena
Wu, Jingxuan
Wu, Xuetong
Roever, Carsten
Wu, Jing
Lv, Long
Lau, Jey Han
Computation and Language
We analyse the cross-lingual transferability of a dialogue evaluation framework that assesses the relationships between micro-level linguistic features (e.g. backchannels) and macro-level interactivity labels (e.g. topic management), originally designed for English-as-a-second-language dialogues. To this end, we develop CNIMA (Chinese Non-Native Interactivity Measurement and Automation), a Chinese-as-a-second-language labelled dataset with 10K dialogues. We found the evaluation framework to be robust across distinct languages: English and Chinese, revealing language-specific and language-universal relationships between micro-level and macro-level features. Next, we propose an automated, interpretable approach with low data requirement that scores the overall quality of a second-language dialogue based on the framework. Our approach is interpretable in that it reveals the key linguistic and interactivity features that contributed to the overall quality score. As our approach does not require labelled data, it can also be adapted to other languages for second-language dialogue evaluation.
title An Interpretable and Crosslingual Method for Evaluating Second-Language Dialogues
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16518