Before revision:  By computing the rank correlation between attention weights and the scores produced by a small sample of these methods, previous analyses have sought to either invalidate or support the role of attention-based explanations as a faithful and plausible measure of salience.
After revision:  By computing the rank correlation between attention weights and the scores produced by a small sample of these methods, previous analyses either invalidate or support the role of attention-based explanations as a faithful and plausible measure of salience.