Abstract
Automated essay scoring (AES) to evaluate second language (L2) proficiency has been a firmly established technology used in educational contexts for decades. Although holistic scoring has seen advancements in AES that match or even exceed human performance, analytic scoring still encounters issues as it inherits flaws and shortcomings from the human scoring process. The recent introduction of large language models presents new opportunities for automating the evaluation of specific aspects of L2 writing proficiency. In this paper, we perform a series of experiments using GPT-4 in a zero-shot fashion on a publicly available dataset annotated with holistic scores based on the Common European Framework of Reference and aim to extract detailed information about their underlying analytic components. We observe significant correlations between the automatically predicted analytic scores and multiple features associated with the individual proficiency components.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.bea-1.14
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Editors:
- Ekaterina Kochmar, Marie Bexte, Jill Burstein, Andrea Horbach, Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Anaïs Tack, Victoria Yaneva, Zheng Yuan
- Venue:
- BEA
- SIG:
- SIGEDU
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 149–164
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.bea-1.14
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Stefano Banno, Hari Krishna Vydana, Kate Knill, and Mark Gales. 2024. Can GPT-4 do L2 analytic assessment?. In Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024), pages 149–164, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Can GPT-4 do L2 analytic assessment? (Banno et al., BEA 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/jeptaln-2024-ingestion/2024.bea-1.14.pdf