George Manoliadis


2022

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Towards Explainable Evaluation of Language Models on the Semantic Similarity of Visual Concepts
Maria Lymperaiou | George Manoliadis | Orfeas Menis Mastromichalakis | Edmund G. Dervakos | Giorgos Stamou
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Recent breakthroughs in NLP research, such as the advent of Transformer models have indisputably contributed to major advancements in several tasks. However, few works research robustness and explainability issues of their evaluation strategies. In this work, we examine the behavior of high-performing pre-trained language models, focusing on the task of semantic similarity for visual vocabularies. First, we address the need for explainable evaluation metrics, necessary for understanding the conceptual quality of retrieved instances. Our proposed metrics provide valuable insights in local and global level, showcasing the inabilities of widely used approaches. Secondly, adversarial interventions on salient query semantics expose vulnerabilities of opaque metrics and highlight patterns in learned linguistic representations.