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In the era of large language models (LLMs), the Chinese Spelling Check (CSC) task has seen various LLM methods developed, yet their performance remains unsatisfactory. In contrast, fine-tuned BERT-based models, relying on high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ziheng Qiao , Houquan Zhou , Zhenghua Li

Chinese Spelling Check (CSC) is a task to detect and correct spelling errors in Chinese natural language. Existing methods have made attempts to incorporate the similarity knowledge between Chinese characters. However, they take the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Xingyi Cheng , Weidi Xu , Kunlong Chen , Shaohua Jiang , Feng Wang , Taifeng Wang , Wei Chu , Yuan Qi

Chinese BERT models achieve remarkable progress in dealing with grammatical errors of word substitution. However, they fail to handle word insertion and deletion because BERT assumes the existence of a word at each position. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Cong Zhou , Yong Dai , Duyu Tang , Enbo Zhao , Zhangyin Feng , Li Kuang , Shuming Shi

This work proposes a simple training-free prompt-free approach to leverage large language models (LLMs) for the Chinese spelling correction (CSC) task, which is totally different from all previous CSC approaches. The key idea is to use an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Houquan Zhou , Zhenghua Li , Bo Zhang , Chen Li , Shaopeng Lai , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Min Zhang

Chinese Spelling Correction (CSC) aims to detect and correct spelling errors in given sentences. Recently, multi-domain CSC has gradually attracted the attention of researchers because it is more practicable. In this paper, we focus on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Peng Xing , Yinghui Li , Shirong Ma , Xinnian Liang , Haojing Huang , Yangning Li , Hai-Tao Zheng , Wenhao Jiang , Ying Shen

Text error correction aims to correct the errors in text sequences such as those typed by humans or generated by speech recognition models. Previous error correction methods usually take the source (incorrect) sentence as encoder input and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Kai Shen , Yichong Leng , Xu Tan , Siliang Tang , Yuan Zhang , Wenjie Liu , Edward Lin

Deep learning has shown promising performance on various machine learning tasks. Nevertheless, the uninterpretability of deep learning models severely restricts the usage domains that require feature explanations, such as text correction.…

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In this paper, we explore the capacity of a language model-based method for grammatical error detection in detail. We first show that 5 to 10% of training data are enough for a BERT-based error detection method to achieve performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Ryo Nagata , Manabu Kimura , Kazuaki Hanawa

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

Chinese Spell Checking (CSC) aims to detect and correct erroneous characters for user-generated text in the Chinese language. Most of the Chinese spelling errors are misused semantically, phonetically or graphically similar characters.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Heng-Da Xu , Zhongli Li , Qingyu Zhou , Chao Li , Zizhen Wang , Yunbo Cao , Heyan Huang , Xian-Ling Mao

In this paper, we present CSCD-NS, the first Chinese spelling check (CSC) dataset designed for native speakers, containing 40,000 samples from a Chinese social platform. Compared with existing CSC datasets aimed at Chinese learners, CSCD-NS…

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Chinese Spell Checking (CSC) is a widely used technology, which plays a vital role in speech to text (STT) and optical character recognition (OCR). Most of the existing CSC approaches relying on BERT architecture achieve excellent…

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In recent years, pre-trained models have been extensively studied, and several downstream tasks have benefited from their utilization. In this study, we verify the effectiveness of two methods that incorporate a BERT-based pre-trained model…

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Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) has shown marvelous improvements across various NLP tasks, and its consecutive variants have been proposed to further improve the performance of the pre-trained language models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yiming Cui , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu , Bing Qin , Ziqing Yang

Soft spelling errors are a class of spelling mistakes that is widespread among native Arabic speakers and foreign learners alike. Some of these errors are typographical in nature. They occur due to orthographic variations of some Arabic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Gheith A. Abandah , Ashraf Suyyagh , Mohammed Z. Khedher

Sentence embedding is an important research topic in natural language processing (NLP) since it can transfer knowledge to downstream tasks. Meanwhile, a contextualized word representation, called BERT, achieves the state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Bin Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Chinese Spell Checking (CSC) aims to detect and correct spelling errors in sentences. Despite Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit robust capabilities and are widely applied in various tasks, their performance on CSC is often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Kunting Li , Yong Hu , Liang He , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

ChatGPT has demonstrated impressive performance in various downstream tasks. However, in the Chinese Spelling Correction (CSC) task, we observe a discrepancy: while ChatGPT performs well under human evaluation, it scores poorly according to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Kunting Li , Yong Hu , Shaolei Wang , Hanhan Ma , Liang He , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

Chinese Spelling Check (CSC) aims to detect and correct potentially misspelled characters in Chinese sentences. Naturally, it involves the detection and correction subtasks, which interact with each other dynamically. Such interactions are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Haiming Wu , Hanqing Zhang , Richeng Xuan , Dawei Song

Chinese medical question-answer matching is more challenging than the open-domain question answer matching in English. Even though the deep learning method has performed well in improving the performance of question answer matching, these…

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