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Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) faces a critical challenge concerning explainability, notably when GEC systems are designed for language learners. Existing research predominantly focuses on explaining grammatical errors extracted in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jingheng Ye , Shang Qin , Yinghui Li , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shen Wang , Qingsong Wen

We propose a neural encoder-decoder model with reinforcement learning (NRL) for grammatical error correction (GEC). Unlike conventional maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), the model directly optimizes towards an objective that considers a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Keisuke Sakaguchi , Matt Post , Benjamin Van Durme

The study presented here relies on the integrated use of different kinds of knowledge in order to improve first-guess accuracy in non-word context-sensitive correction for general unrestricted texts. State of the art spelling correction…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 E. Agirre , K. Gojenola , K. Sarasola

This paper addresses the task of readability assessment for the texts aimed at second language (L2) learners. One of the major challenges in this task is the lack of significantly sized level-annotated data. For the present work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Menglin Xia , Ekaterina Kochmar , Ted Briscoe

We propose a novel data synthesis method to generate diverse error-corrected sentence pairs for improving grammatical error correction, which is based on a pair of machine translation models of different qualities (i.e., poor and good). The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Wangchunshu Zhou , Tao Ge , Chang Mu , Ke Xu , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

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

Linguistic acceptability (LA) attracts the attention of the research community due to its many uses, such as testing the grammatical knowledge of language models and filtering implausible texts with acceptability classifiers. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Vladislav Mikhailov , Tatiana Shamardina , Max Ryabinin , Alena Pestova , Ivan Smurov , Ekaterina Artemova

Evaluating the grammatical competence of second language (L2) learners is essential both for providing targeted feedback and for assessing proficiency. To achieve this, we propose a novel framework leveraging the English Grammar Profile…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Stefano Bannò , Penny Karanasou , Kate Knill , Mark Gales

Spelling normalization for low resource languages is a challenging task because the patterns are hard to predict and large corpora are usually required to collect enough examples. This work shows a comparison of a neural model and character…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Yiyuan Li , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Alan W Black

News headline generation is an essential problem of text summarization because it is constrained, well-defined, and is still hard to solve. Models with a limited vocabulary can not solve it well, as new named entities can appear regularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Ilya Gusev

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

In this paper, we carry out experimental research on Grammatical Error Correction, delving into the nuances of single-model systems, comparing the efficiency of ensembling and ranking methods, and exploring the application of large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Kostiantyn Omelianchuk , Andrii Liubonko , Oleksandr Skurzhanskyi , Artem Chernodub , Oleksandr Korniienko , Igor Samokhin

The paper gives an overview of the Russian Semantic Similarity Evaluation (RUSSE) shared task held in conjunction with the Dialogue 2015 conference. There exist a lot of comparative studies on semantic similarity, yet no analysis of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Alexander Panchenko , Natalia Loukachevitch , Dmitry Ustalov , Denis Paperno , Christian Meyer , Natalia Konstantinova

We explore and improve the capabilities of LLMs to generate data for grammatical error correction (GEC). When merely producing parallel sentences, their patterns are too simplistic to be valuable as a corpus. To address this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Jeiyoon Park , Chanjun Park , Heuiseok Lim

Natural language correction has the potential to help language learners improve their writing skills. While approaches with separate classifiers for different error types have high precision, they do not flexibly handle errors such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Ziang Xie , Anand Avati , Naveen Arivazhagan , Dan Jurafsky , Andrew Y. Ng

The task of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) has received remarkable attention with wide applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in recent years. While one of the key principles of GEC is to keep the correct parts unchanged and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jiquan Li , Junliang Guo , Yongxin Zhu , Xin Sheng , Deqiang Jiang , Bo Ren , Linli Xu

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

This paper studies Chinese Spelling Correction (CSC), which aims to detect and correct the potential spelling errors in a given sentence. Current state-of-the-art methods regard CSC as a sequence tagging task and fine-tune BERT-based models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Linfeng Liu , Hongqiu Wu , Hai Zhao

Embedding models play a crucial role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by creating text embeddings used in various tasks such as information retrieval and assessing semantic text similarity. This paper focuses on research related to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Artem Snegirev , Maria Tikhonova , Anna Maksimova , Alena Fenogenova , Alexander Abramov

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