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We propose LaserTagger - a sequence tagging approach that casts text generation as a text editing task. Target texts are reconstructed from the inputs using three main edit operations: keeping a token, deleting it, and adding a phrase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Eric Malmi , Sebastian Krause , Sascha Rothe , Daniil Mirylenka , Aliaksei Severyn

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is a well-explored problem in English with many existing models and datasets. However, research on GEC in morphologically rich languages has been limited due to challenges such as data scarcity and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Bashar Alhafni , Go Inoue , Christian Khairallah , Nizar Habash

Grammar error correction (GEC) is an important application aspect of natural language processing techniques. The past decade has witnessed significant progress achieved in GEC for the sake of increasing popularity of machine learning and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Yu Wang , Yuelin Wang , Jie Liu , Zhuo Liu

Error correction codes (ECC) are crucial for ensuring reliable information transmission in communication systems. Choukroun & Wolf (2022b) recently introduced the Error Correction Code Transformer (ECCT), which has demonstrated promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Matan Levy , Yoni Choukroun , Lior Wolf

We introduce unsupervised techniques based on phrase-based statistical machine translation for grammatical error correction (GEC) trained on a pseudo learner corpus created by Google Translation. We verified our GEC system through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Satoru Katsumata , Mamoru Komachi

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) is a task of detecting and correcting grammatical errors in sentences. Recently, neural machine translation systems have become popular approaches for this task. However, these methods lack the use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Zhaohong Wan , Xiaojun Wan

The sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) approach has recently been widely used in grammatical error correction (GEC) and shows promising performance. However, the Seq2Seq GEC approach still suffers from two issues. First, a Seq2Seq GEC model can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Houquan Zhou , Yumeng Liu , Zhenghua Li , Min Zhang , Bo Zhang , Chen Li , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang

This paper presents a simple recipe to train state-of-the-art multilingual Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) models. We achieve this by first proposing a language-agnostic method to generate a large number of synthetic examples. The second…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Sascha Rothe , Jonathan Mallinson , Eric Malmi , Sebastian Krause , Aliaksei Severyn

Grammatical error correction can be viewed as a low-resource sequence-to-sequence task, because publicly available parallel corpora are limited. To tackle this challenge, we first generate erroneous versions of large unannotated corpora…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Yo Joong Choe , Jiyeon Ham , Kyubyong Park , Yeoil Yoon

In this paper, we propose Shallow Aggressive Decoding (SAD) to improve the online inference efficiency of the Transformer for instantaneous Grammatical Error Correction (GEC). SAD optimizes the online inference efficiency for GEC by two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Xin Sun , Tao Ge , Furu Wei , Houfeng Wang

Grammatical error correction (GEC) suffers from a lack of sufficient parallel data. Therefore, GEC studies have developed various methods to generate pseudo data, which comprise pairs of grammatical and artificially produced ungrammatical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Aomi Koyama , Kengo Hotate , Masahiro Kaneko , Mamoru Komachi

Previously, neural methods in grammatical error correction (GEC) did not reach state-of-the-art results compared to phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) baselines. We demonstrate parallels between neural GEC and low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt , Roman Grundkiewicz , Shubha Guha , Kenneth Heafield

We combine two of the most popular approaches to automated Grammatical Error Correction (GEC): GEC based on Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and GEC based on Neural Machine Translation (NMT). The hybrid system achieves new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Roman Grundkiewicz , Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt

Grammatical error correction (GEC) systems strive to correct both global errors in word order and usage, and local errors in spelling and inflection. Further developing upon recent work on neural machine translation, we propose a new hybrid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Jianshu Ji , Qinlong Wang , Kristina Toutanova , Yongen Gong , Steven Truong , Jianfeng Gao

This work proposes a syntax-enhanced grammatical error correction (GEC) approach named SynGEC that effectively incorporates dependency syntactic information into the encoder part of GEC models. The key challenge for this idea is that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yue Zhang , Bo Zhang , Zhenghua Li , Zuyi Bao , Chen Li , Min Zhang

Recently, Transformer-based encoder-decoder models have demonstrated strong performance in multilingual speech recognition. However, the decoder's autoregressive nature and large size introduce significant bottlenecks during inference.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Yunkyu Lim , Jihwan Park , Hyung Yong Kim , Hanbin Lee , Byeong-Yeol Kim

Multilingual translation suffers from computational redundancy, especially when translating into multiple languages simultaneously. In addition, translation quality can suffer for low-resource languages. To address this, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yiwen Guan , Jacob Whitehill

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) has been recently modeled using the sequence-to-sequence framework. However, unlike sequence transduction problems such as machine translation, GEC suffers from the lack of plentiful parallel data. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Jared Lichtarge , Chris Alberti , Shankar Kumar , Noam Shazeer , Niki Parmar , Simon Tong

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