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Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) and grammatical acceptability judgment (COLA) are core tasks in natural language processing, sharing foundational grammatical knowledge yet typically evolving independently. This paper introduces COLA-GEC,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xiangyu Yang , Xinying Qiu

Neural machine translation systems have become state-of-the-art approaches for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) task. In this paper, we propose a copy-augmented architecture for the GEC task by copying the unchanged words from the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Wei Zhao , Liang Wang , Kewei Shen , Ruoyu Jia , Jingming Liu

A Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) system produces a sequence of edits to correct an erroneous sentence. The quality of these edits is typically evaluated against human annotations. However, a sentence may admit multiple valid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Qiyuan Xiao , Xiaoman Wang , Yunshi Lan

We perform neural machine translation of sentence fragments in order to create large amounts of training data for English grammatical error correction. Our method aims at simulating mistakes made by second language learners, and produces a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Eetu Sjöblom , Mathias Creutz , Teemu Vahtola

The text editing tasks, including sentence fusion, sentence splitting and rephrasing, text simplification, and Grammatical Error Correction (GEC), share a common trait of dealing with highly similar input and output sequences. This area of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Bohdan Didenko , Andrii Sameliuk

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) should not focus only on high accuracy of corrections but also on interpretability for language learning. However, existing neural-based GEC models mainly aim at improving accuracy, and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Masahiro Kaneko , Sho Takase , Ayana Niwa , Naoaki Okazaki

Although rarely stated, in practice, Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) encompasses various models with distinct objectives, ranging from grammatical error detection to improving fluency. Traditional evaluation methods fail to fully capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Robert Östling , Katarina Gillholm , Murathan Kurfalı , Marie Mattson , Mats Wirén

This paper presents our system for Track 1: Mistake Identification in the BEA 2025 Shared Task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors. The task involves evaluating whether a tutor's response correctly identifies a mistake in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Numaan Naeem , Sarfraz Ahmad , Momina Ahsan , Hasan Iqbal

Synthetic data construction of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) for non-English languages relies heavily on human-designed and language-specific rules, which produce limited error-corrected patterns. In this paper, we propose a generic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Xin Sun , Tao Ge , Shuming Ma , Jingjing Li , Furu Wei , Houfeng Wang

We present a grammar error correction (GEC) system that achieves state of the art for the Czech language. Our system is based on a neural network translation approach with the Transformer architecture, and its key feature is its real-time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Petr Pechman , Milan Straka , Jana Straková , Jakub Náplava

Spelling irregularities, known now as spelling mistakes, have been found for several centuries. As humans, we are able to understand most of the misspelled words based on their location in the sentence, perceived pronunciation, and context.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Yifei Hu , Xiaonan Jing , Youlim Ko , Julia Taylor Rayz

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

Recently, much Chinese text error correction work has focused on Chinese Spelling Check (CSC) and Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis (CGED). In contrast, little attention has been paid to the complicated problem of Chinese Semantic Error…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Bo Sun , Baoxin Wang , Yixuan Wang , Wanxiang Che , Dayong Wu , Shijin Wang , Ting Liu

Grammatical Error Detection (GED) methods rely heavily on human annotated error corpora. However, these annotations are unavailable in many low-resource languages. In this paper, we investigate GED in this context. Leveraging the zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Gaetan Lopez Latouche , Marc-André Carbonneau , Ben Swanson

While large-scale language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in specific natural language processing (NLP) tasks, they may still lack proficiency compared to specialized models in certain domains, such as grammatical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Tao Fang , Derek F. Wong , Lusheng Zhang , Keyan Jin , Qiang Zhang , Tianjiao Li , Jinlong Hou , Lidia S. Chao

Chinese Grammatical Error Correction (CGEC) aims to generate a correct sentence from an erroneous sequence, where different kinds of errors are mixed. This paper divides the CGEC task into two steps, namely spelling error correction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Xiuyu Wu , Yunfang Wu

Recent work on Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) has highlighted the importance of language modeling in that it is certainly possible to achieve good performance by comparing the probabilities of the proposed edits. At the same time,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Dimitrios Alikaniotis , Vipul Raheja

Resources for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) in non-English languages are scarce, while available spellcheckers in these languages are mostly limited to simple corrections and rules. In this paper we introduce a first GEC corpus for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Teodor-Mihai Cotet , Stefan Ruseti , Mihai Dascalu

Grammatical error correction (GEC) aims to correct grammatical, spelling, and semantic errors in natural language text. With the growing of large language models (LLMs), direct text generation has gradually become the focus of the GEC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Wei Li , Wen Luo , Guangyue Peng , Houfeng Wang

Grammatical error correction (GEC) aims to improve text quality and readability. Previous work on the task focused primarily on high-resource languages, while low-resource languages lack robust tools. To address this shortcoming, we present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Mamadou K. Keita , Adwoa Bremang , Huy Le , Dennis Owusu , Christopher Homan , Marcos Zampieri