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Whole word masking (WWM), which masks all subwords corresponding to a word at once, makes a better English BERT model. For the Chinese language, however, there is no subword because each token is an atomic character. The meaning of a word…

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This study explores enhancing grammatical error correction (GEC) through artificial error generation (AEG) using language models (LMs). Specifically, we fine-tune Llama 2-based LMs for error generation and find that this approach yields…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Agnes Luhtaru , Taido Purason , Martin Vainikko , Maksym Del , Mark Fishel

Sequence generation applications require satisfying semantic constraints, such as ensuring that programs are correct, using certain keywords, or avoiding undesirable content. Language models, whether fine-tuned or prompted with few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Sean Welleck , Ximing Lu , Peter West , Faeze Brahman , Tianxiao Shen , Daniel Khashabi , Yejin Choi

Chinese Spelling Correction (CSC) aims to detect and correct erroneous characters in Chinese texts. Although efforts have been made to introduce phonetic information (Hanyu Pinyin) in this task, they typically merge phonetic representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zihong Liang , Xiaojun Quan , Qifan Wang

Data Augmentation through generating pseudo data has been proven effective in mitigating the challenge of data scarcity in the field of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC). Various augmentation strategies have been widely explored, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Jingheng Ye , Yinghui Li , Yangning Li , Hai-Tao Zheng

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

We introduce a large and diverse Czech corpus annotated for grammatical error correction (GEC) with the aim to contribute to the still scarce data resources in this domain for languages other than English. The Grammar Error Correction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Jakub Náplava , Milan Straka , Jana Straková , Alexandr Rosen

This paper proposes a Chinese spelling correction method based on plugin extension modules, aimed at addressing the limitations of existing models in handling domain-specific texts. Traditional Chinese spelling correction models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Xiaowu Zhang , Hongfei Zhao , Xuan Chang

Grammatical feedback is crucial for consolidating second language (L2) learning. Most research in computer-assisted language learning has focused on feedback through grammatical error correction (GEC) systems, rather than examining more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Stefano Bannò , Kate Knill , Mark J. F. Gales

When evaluating a learner's knowledge proficiency, the multiple-choice question is an efficient and widely used format in standardized tests. Nevertheless, generating these questions, particularly plausible distractors (incorrect options),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Runfeng Lin , Dacheng Xu , Huijiang Wang , Zebiao Chen , Yating Wang , Shouqiang Liu

We present a grammar error correction (GEC) system that achieves state of the art for the Czech language. Our system is based on a neural network translation approach with the Transformer architecture, and its key feature is its real-time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Petr Pechman , Milan Straka , Jana Straková , Jakub Náplava

We perform neural machine translation of sentence fragments in order to create large amounts of training data for English grammatical error correction. Our method aims at simulating mistakes made by second language learners, and produces a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Eetu Sjöblom , Mathias Creutz , Teemu Vahtola

Image captioning has so far been explored mostly in English, as most available datasets are in this language. However, the application of image captioning should not be restricted by language. Only few studies have been conducted for image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Weiyu Lan , Xirong Li , Jianfeng Dong

Phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) systems have previously been used for the task of grammatical error correction (GEC) to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy. The superiority of SMT systems comes from their ability to learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Shamil Chollampatt , Kaveh Taghipour , Hwee Tou Ng

Evaluating the performance of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) models has become increasingly challenging, as large language model (LLM)-based GEC systems often produce corrections that diverge from provided gold references. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jinxiang Xie , Yilin Li , Xunjian Yin , Xiaojun Wan

In grammatical error correction (GEC), automatic evaluation is an important factor for research and development of GEC systems. Previous studies on automatic evaluation have demonstrated that quality estimation models built from datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Daisuke Suzuki , Yujin Takahashi , Ikumi Yamashita , Taichi Aida , Tosho Hirasawa , Michitaka Nakatsuji , Masato Mita , Mamoru Komachi

Factuality is important to dialogue summarization. Factual error correction (FEC) of model-generated summaries is one way to improve factuality. Current FEC evaluation that relies on factuality metrics is not reliable and detailed enough.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Mingqi Gao , Xiaojun Wan , Jia Su , Zhefeng Wang , Baoxing Huai

Recent language models can successfully solve various language-related tasks, and many understand inputs stated in different languages. In this paper, we explore the performance of 17 popular models used to correct grammatical issues in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Dawid Wisniewski , Antoni Solarski , Artur Nowakowski

Cross-lingual Summarization (CLS) aims at producing a summary in the target language for an article in the source language. Traditional solutions employ a two-step approach, i.e. translate then summarize or summarize then translate.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ruochen Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Yu Shi , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

Citation faithfulness detection is critical for enhancing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, yet large-scale Chinese datasets for this task are scarce. Existing methods face prohibitive costs due to the need for manually…

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