@inproceedings{fiacco-etal-2023-towards,
    title = "Towards Extracting and Understanding the Implicit Rubrics of Transformer Based Automatic Essay Scoring Models",
    author = "Fiacco, James  and
      Adamson, David  and
      Rose, Carolyn",
    editor = {Kochmar, Ekaterina  and
      Burstein, Jill  and
      Horbach, Andrea  and
      Laarmann-Quante, Ronja  and
      Madnani, Nitin  and
      Tack, Ana{\"\i}s  and
      Yaneva, Victoria  and
      Yuan, Zheng  and
      Zesch, Torsten},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.20",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.20",
    pages = "232--241",
    abstract = "By aligning the functional components derived from the activations of transformer models trained for AES with external knowledge such as human-understandable feature groups, the proposed method improves the interpretability of a Longformer Automatic Essay Scoring (AES) system and provides tools for performing such analyses on further neural AES systems. The analysis focuses on models trained to score essays based on organization, main idea, support, and language. The findings provide insights into the models{'} decision-making processes, biases, and limitations, contributing to the development of more transparent and reliable AES systems.",
}

By aligning the functional components derived from the activations of transformer models trained for AES with external knowledge such as human-understandable feature groups, the proposed method improves the interpretability of a Longformer Automatic Essay Scoring (AES) system and provides tools for performing such analyses on further neural AES systems. The analysis focuses on models trained to score essays based on organization, main idea, support, and language. The findings provide insights into the models{'} decision-making processes, biases, and limitations, contributing to the development of more transparent and reliable AES systems.
Fiacco, James Adamson, David Rose, Carolyn
Towards Extracting and Understanding the Implicit Rubrics of Transformer Based Automatic Essay Scoring Models