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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

We propose a novel language-independent approach to improve the efficiency for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) by dividing the task into two subtasks: Erroneous Span Detection (ESD) and Erroneous Span Correction (ESC). ESD identifies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mengyun Chen , Tao Ge , Xingxing Zhang , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) systems perform a sequence-to-sequence task, where an input word sequence containing grammatical errors, is corrected for these errors by the GEC system to output a grammatically correct word sequence.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) systems play a vital role in assisting people with their daily writing tasks. However, users may sometimes come across a GEC system that initially performs well but fails to correct errors when the inputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yue Zhang , Leyang Cui , Enbo Zhao , Wei Bi , Shuming Shi

Chinese grammatical error correction (CGEC) aims to detect and correct errors in the input Chinese sentences. Recently, Pre-trained Language Models (PLMS) have been employed to improve the performance. However, current approaches ignore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ding Zhang , Yangning Li , Lichen Bai , Hao Zhang , Yinghui Li , Haiye Lin , Hai-Tao Zheng , Xin Su , Zifei Shan

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is an important NLP task that is currently usually solved with autoregressive sequence-to-sequence models. However, approaches of this class are inherently slow due to one-by-one token generation, so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Konstantin Yakovlev , Alexander Podolskiy , Andrey Bout , Sergey Nikolenko , Irina Piontkovskaya

The writing examples of English language learners may be different from those of native speakers. Given that there is a significant differences in second language (L2) learners' error types by their proficiency levels, this paper attempts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Min Zeng , Jiexin Kuang , Mengyang Qiu , Jayoung Song , Jungyeul Park

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

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

Large-scale pre-trained language models such as GPT-3 have shown remarkable performance across various natural language processing tasks. However, applying prompt-based methods with GPT-3 for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) tasks and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Mengsay Loem , Masahiro Kaneko , Sho Takase , Naoaki Okazaki

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

Automated assistants for Grammatical Error Correction are now embedded in educational platforms serving millions of learners, yet three critical gaps remain in this domain: (1) latest-generation Large Language Models (LLMs) lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Adnan Labib , Qiao Wang , Yixuan Huang , Zheng Yuan

Evaluating the performance of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) systems is a challenging task due to its subjectivity. Designing an evaluation metric that is as objective as possible is crucial to the development of GEC task. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jingheng Ye , Yinghui Li , Qingyu Zhou , Yangning Li , Shirong Ma , Hai-Tao Zheng , Ying Shen

Current methods for automatically evaluating grammatical error correction (GEC) systems rely on gold-standard references. However, these methods suffer from penalizing grammatical edits that are correct but not in the gold standard. We show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Courtney Napoles , Keisuke Sakaguchi , Joel Tetreault

We present a method for classifying syntactic errors in learner language, namely errors whose correction alters the morphosyntactic structure of a sentence. The methodology builds on the established Universal Dependencies syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Leshem Choshen , Dmitry Nikolaev , Yevgeni Berzak , Omri Abend

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is a task dedicated to rectifying texts with minimal edits, which can be decoupled into two components: detection and correction. However, previous works have predominantly focused on direct correction,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Wei Li , Houfeng Wang

Chinese Grammatical Error Correction (CGEC) aims to automatically detect and correct grammatical errors contained in Chinese text. In the long term, researchers regard CGEC as a task with a certain degree of uncertainty, that is, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jingheng Ye , Yinghui Li , Shirong Ma , Rui Xie , Wei Wu , Hai-Tao Zheng

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

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) relies on accurate error annotation and evaluation, yet existing frameworks, such as $\texttt{errant}$, face limitations when extended to typologically diverse languages. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mengyang Qiu , Tran Minh Nguyen , Zihao Huang , Zelong Li , Yang Gu , Qingyu Gao , Siliang Liu , Jungyeul Park

We propose USim, a semantic measure for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) that measures the semantic faithfulness of the output to the source, thereby complementing existing reference-less measures (RLMs) for measuring the output's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Leshem Choshen , Omri Abend