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Chinese Grammatical Error Correction (CGEC) is a critical task in Natural Language Processing, addressing the growing demand for automated writing assistance in both second-language (L2) and native (L1) Chinese writing. While L2 learners…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Mengyang Qiu , Qingyu Gao , Linxuan Yang , Yang Gu , Tran Minh Nguyen , Zihao Huang , Jungyeul Park

We propose IMPARA-GED, a novel reference-free automatic grammatical error correction (GEC) evaluation method with grammatical error detection (GED) capabilities. We focus on the quality estimator of IMPARA, an existing automatic GEC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yusuke Sakai , Takumi Goto , Taro Watanabe

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 feedback is crucial for L2 learners, teachers, and testers. Spoken grammatical error correction (GEC) aims to supply feedback to L2 learners on their use of grammar when speaking. This process usually relies on a cascaded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Stefano Bannò , Rao Ma , Mengjie Qian , Kate M. Knill , Mark J. F. Gales

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

Error Span Detection (ESD) extends automatic machine translation (MT) evaluation by localizing translation errors and labeling their severity. Current generative ESD methods typically use Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) decoding, assuming that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Boxuan Lyu , Haiyue Song , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Chenchen Ding , Hideki Tanaka , Masao Utiyama , Kotaro Funakoshi , Manabu Okumura

In this paper, we present a simple and efficient GEC sequence tagger using a Transformer encoder. Our system is pre-trained on synthetic data and then fine-tuned in two stages: first on errorful corpora, and second on a combination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Kostiantyn Omelianchuk , Vitaliy Atrasevych , Artem Chernodub , Oleksandr Skurzhanskyi

Error type information has been widely used to improve the performance of grammatical error correction (GEC) models, whether for generating corrections, re-ranking them, or combining GEC models. Combining GEC models that have complementary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Muhammad Reza Qorib , Alham Fikri Aji , Hwee Tou Ng

Some grammatical error correction (GEC) systems incorporate hand-crafted rules and achieve positive results. However, manually defining rules is time-consuming and laborious. In view of this, we propose a method to mine error templates for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Yue Zhang , Haochen Jiang , Zuyi Bao , Bo Zhang , Chen Li , Zhenghua Li

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

Recently, Zhang et al. (2022) propose a syntax-aware grammatical error correction (GEC) approach, named SynGEC, showing that incorporating tailored dependency-based syntax of the input sentence is quite beneficial to GEC. This work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yue Zhang , Zhenghua Li

Recent studies have revealed that grammatical error correction methods in the sequence-to-sequence paradigm are vulnerable to adversarial attack, and simply utilizing adversarial examples in the pre-training or post-training process can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zecheng Tang , Kaifeng Qi , Juntao Li , Min Zhang

Neural sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) approaches have proven to be successful in grammatical error correction (GEC). Based on the seq2seq framework, we propose a novel fluency boost learning and inference mechanism. Fluency boosting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Tao Ge , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

We describe an approach to Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) that is effective at making use of models trained on large amounts of weakly supervised bitext. We train the Transformer sequence-to-sequence model on 4B tokens of Wikipedia…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Jared Lichtarge , Christopher Alberti , Shankar Kumar , Noam Shazeer , Niki Parmar

Currently available grammatical error correction (GEC) datasets are compiled using well-formed written text, limiting the applicability of these datasets to other domains such as informal writing and dialog. In this paper, we present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xun Yuan , Derek Pham , Sam Davidson , Zhou Yu

This paper investigates how to correct Chinese text errors with types of mistaken, missing and redundant characters, which is common for Chinese native speakers. Most existing models based on detect-correct framework can correct mistaken…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Liying Zheng , Yue Deng , Weishun Song , Liang Xu , Jing Xiao

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

Although existing neural network approaches have achieved great success on Chinese spelling correction, there is still room to improve. The model is required to avoid over-correction and to distinguish a correct token from its phonological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Rui Sun , Xiuyu Wu , Yunfang Wu

Metrics are the foundation for automatic evaluation in grammatical error correction (GEC), with their evaluation of the metrics (meta-evaluation) relying on their correlation with human judgments. However, conventional meta-evaluations in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Masamune Kobayashi , Masato Mita , Mamoru Komachi

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is one of the areas in natural language processing in which purely neural models have not yet superseded more traditional symbolic models. Hybrid systems combining phrase-based statistical machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Felix Stahlberg , Christopher Bryant , Bill Byrne