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In Grammatical Error Correction (GEC), sequence labeling models enjoy fast inference compared to sequence-to-sequence models; however, inference in sequence labeling GEC models is an iterative process, as sentences are passed to the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Kevin Parnow , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

GPT-3 and GPT-4 models are powerful, achieving high performance on a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks. However, there is a relative lack of detailed published analysis of their performance on the task of grammatical error…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Steven Coyne , Keisuke Sakaguchi , Diana Galvan-Sosa , Michael Zock , Kentaro Inui

We propose a novel data synthesis method to generate diverse error-corrected sentence pairs for improving grammatical error correction, which is based on a pair of machine translation models of different qualities (i.e., poor and good). The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Wangchunshu Zhou , Tao Ge , Chang Mu , Ke Xu , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

Synthetic data generation is widely known to boost the accuracy of neural grammatical error correction (GEC) systems, but existing methods often lack diversity or are too simplistic to generate the broad range of grammatical errors made by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Felix Stahlberg , Shankar Kumar

The interest in statistical machine translation systems increases currently due to political and social events in the world. A proposed Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) based model that can be used to translate a sentence from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Ahmed G. M. ElSayed , Ahmed S. Salama , Alaa El-Din M. El-Ghazali

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) faces a critical challenge concerning explainability, notably when GEC systems are designed for language learners. Existing research predominantly focuses on explaining grammatical errors extracted in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jingheng Ye , Shang Qin , Yinghui Li , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shen Wang , Qingsong Wen

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is an important NLP task that is currently usually solved with autoregressive sequence-to-sequence models. However, approaches of this class are inherently slow due to one-by-one token generation, so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Konstantin Yakovlev , Alexander Podolskiy , Andrey Bout , Sergey Nikolenko , Irina Piontkovskaya

Recent progress in the task of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) has been driven by addressing data sparsity, both through new methods for generating large and noisy pretraining data and through the publication of small and higher-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Jared Lichtarge , Chris Alberti , Shankar Kumar

Current methods for automatically evaluating grammatical error correction (GEC) systems rely on gold-standard references. However, these methods suffer from penalizing grammatical edits that are correct but not in the gold standard. We show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Courtney Napoles , Keisuke Sakaguchi , Joel Tetreault

Automatic evaluation in grammatical error correction (GEC) is crucial for selecting the best-performing systems. Currently, reference-based metrics are a popular choice, which basically measure the similarity between hypothesis and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Takumi Goto , Yusuke Sakai , Taro Watanabe

Code-switching (CSW) is a common phenomenon among multilingual speakers where multiple languages are used in a single discourse or utterance. Mixed language utterances may still contain grammatical errors however, yet most existing Grammar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Kelvin Wey Han Chan , Christopher Bryant , Li Nguyen , Andrew Caines , Zheng Yuan

Grammatical error correction in English is a long studied problem with many existing systems and datasets. However, there has been only a limited research on error correction of other languages. In this paper, we present a new dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Jakub Náplava , Milan Straka

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is the task of detecting and correcting errors in a written text. The idea of combining multiple system outputs has been successfully used in GEC. To achieve successful system combination, multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Wenjuan Han , Hwee Tou Ng

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is the task of correcting errorful sentences into grammatically correct, semantically consistent, and coherent sentences. Popular GEC models either use large-scale synthetic corpora or use a large number…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hejing Cao , Dongyan Zhao

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) systems perform a sequence-to-sequence task, where an input word sequence containing grammatical errors, is corrected for these errors by the GEC system to output a grammatically correct word sequence.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales

We introduce translation error correction (TEC), the task of automatically correcting human-generated translations. Imperfections in machine translations (MT) have long motivated systems for improving translations post-hoc with automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jessy Lin , Geza Kovacs , Aditya Shastry , Joern Wuebker , John DeNero

To solve the Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) problem , a mapping between a source sequence and a target one is needed, where the two differ only on few spans. For this reason, the attention has been shifted to the non-autoregressive or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Kamal Al-Sabahi , Kang Yang , Wangwang Liu , Guanyu Jiang , Xian Li , Ming Yang

Starting from the 1950s, Machine Translation (MT) was challenged by different scientific solutions, which included rule-based methods, example-based and statistical models (SMT), to hybrid models, and very recent years the neural models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Lifeng Han , Serge Gladkoff

Various evaluation metrics have been proposed for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC), but many, particularly reference-free metrics, lack explainability. This lack of explainability hinders researchers from analyzing the strengths and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Takumi Goto , Justin Vasselli , Taro Watanabe

Current grammatical error correction (GEC) models typically consider the task as sequence generation, which requires large amounts of annotated data and limit the applications in data-limited settings. We try to incorporate contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Yiyuan Li , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Alan W Black