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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

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

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have demonstrated remarkable performance across various applications. However, limited data and the unique language features of specific domains, such as low-resource languages, significantly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Amin Robatian , Mohammad Hajipour , Mohammad Reza Peyghan , Fatemeh Rajabi , Sajjad Amini , Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami , Iman Gholampour

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

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

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

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

Learning meaningful and general representations from unannotated speech that are applicable to a wide range of tasks remains challenging. In this paper we propose to use autoregressive predictive coding (APC), a recently proposed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Yu-An Chung , James Glass

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) receive great attentions recently due to its excellent performance in image generation, transformation, and super-resolution. However, GAN has rarely been studied and trained for classification, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Zhuang Qian , Kaizhu Huang , Qiufeng Wang , Jimin Xiao , Rui Zhang

In recent years, sequence-to-sequence models have been very effective for end-to-end grammatical error correction (GEC). As creating human-annotated parallel corpus for GEC is expensive and time-consuming, there has been work on artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Phu Mon Htut , Joel Tetreault

Autoregressive generative models naturally generate variable-length sequences, while non-autoregressive models struggle, often imposing rigid, token-wise structures. We propose Edit Flows, a non-autoregressive model that overcomes these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Marton Havasi , Brian Karrer , Itai Gat , Ricky T. Q. Chen

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

We present a comparison of word-based and character-based sequence-to-sequence models for data-to-text natural language generation, which generate natural language descriptions for structured inputs. On the datasets of two recent generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Glorianna Jagfeld , Sabrina Jenne , Ngoc Thang Vu

We present a semi-supervised way of training a character-based encoder-decoder recurrent neural network for morphological reinflection, the task of generating one inflected word form from another. This is achieved by using unlabeled tokens…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Katharina Kann , Hinrich Schütze

Non-autoregressive Transformer(NAT) significantly accelerates the inference of neural machine translation. However, conventional NAT models suffer from limited expression power and performance degradation compared to autoregressive (AT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Shangtong Gui , Chenze Shao , Zhengrui Ma , Xishan Zhang , Yunji Chen , Yang Feng

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

Most existing Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) methods based on sequence-to-sequence mainly focus on how to generate more pseudo data to obtain better performance. Few work addresses few-shot GEC domain adaptation. In this paper, we treat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Shengsheng Zhang , Yaping Huang , Yun Chen , Liner Yang , Chencheng Wang , Erhong Yang

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

Given the recent progress in language modeling using Transformer-based neural models and an active interest in generating stylized text, we present an approach to leverage the generalization capabilities of a language model to rewrite an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Bakhtiyar Syed , Gaurav Verma , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Anandhavelu Natarajan , Vasudeva Varma

Neural Machine Translation (MT) has reached state-of-the-art results. However, one of the main challenges that neural MT still faces is dealing with very large vocabularies and morphologically rich languages. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Marta R. Costa-Jussà , José A. R. Fonollosa