Beyond Reference-Based Evaluation: Reward Models for Meta-Evaluation of Grammatical Error Correction

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arXiv:2609.21231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reference-based metrics for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) such as M$^2$ and ERRANT assume that the reference set enumerates all valid edits, and therefore often penalize corrections that are grammatical and meaning-preserving but phrased differently. We introduce RM-EVAL, a reward model trained on human preference data from SEEDA, as a reference-free meta-evaluator that predicts human-like quality judgments at both full-sequence and partial-se