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We extend a current sequence-tagging approach to Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) by introducing specialised tags for spelling correction and morphological inflection using the SymSpell and LemmInflect algorithms. Our approach improves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Stuart Mesham , Christopher Bryant , Marek Rei , Zheng Yuan

Progress in neural grammatical error correction (GEC) is hindered by the lack of annotated training data. Sufficient amounts of high-quality manually annotated data are not available, so recent research has relied on generating synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andrey Bout , Alexander Podolskiy , Sergey Nikolenko , Irina Piontkovskaya

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

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

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 systems improve written communication by detecting and correcting language mistakes. To help language learners better understand why the GEC system makes a certain correction, the causes of errors (evidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yuejiao Fei , Leyang Cui , Sen Yang , Wai Lam , Zhenzhong Lan , Shuming Shi

The task of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) aims to automatically correct grammatical errors in natural texts. Almost all previous works treat annotated training data equally, but inherent discrepancies in data are neglected. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Jiahao Li , Quan Wang , Chiwei Zhu , Zhendong Mao , Yongdong Zhang

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) and grammatical acceptability judgment (COLA) are core tasks in natural language processing, sharing foundational grammatical knowledge yet typically evolving independently. This paper introduces COLA-GEC,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xiangyu Yang , Xinying Qiu

Grammatical error correction (GEC) aims to improve text quality and readability. Previous work on the task focused primarily on high-resource languages, while low-resource languages lack robust tools. To address this shortcoming, we present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Mamadou K. Keita , Adwoa Bremang , Huy Le , Dennis Owusu , Christopher Homan , Marcos Zampieri

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

Matching texts in highly inflected languages such as Arabic by simple stemming strategy is unlikely to perform well. In this paper, we present a strategy for automatic text matching technique for for inflectional languages, using Arabic as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Tarek El-Shishtawy , Fatma El-Ghannam

Synthetic data generation is widely known to boost the accuracy of neural grammatical error correction (GEC) systems, but existing methods often lack diversity or are too simplistic to generate the broad range of grammatical errors made by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Felix Stahlberg , Shankar Kumar

We present ARETA, an automatic error type annotation system for Modern Standard Arabic. We design ARETA to address Arabic's morphological richness and orthographic ambiguity. We base our error taxonomy on the Arabic Learner Corpus (ALC)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Riadh Belkebir , Nizar Habash

Text editing can involve several iterations of revision. Incorporating an efficient Grammar Error Correction (GEC) tool in the initial correction round can significantly impact further human editing effort and final text quality. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ankit Vadehra , Bill Johnson , Gene Saunders , Pascal Poupart

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is the task of detecting and correcting grammatical errors in texts written by second language learners. The statistical machine translation (SMT) approach to GEC, in which sentences written by second…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Duc Tam Hoang , Shamil Chollampatt , Hwee Tou 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

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

Recent progress in the task of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) has been driven by addressing data sparsity, both through new methods for generating large and noisy pretraining data and through the publication of small and higher-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Jared Lichtarge , Chris Alberti , Shankar Kumar

Grammatical error correction (GEC) tools, powered by advanced generative artificial intelligence (AI), competently correct linguistic inaccuracies in user input. However, they often fall short in providing essential natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Subhankar Maity , Aniket Deroy , Sudeshna Sarkar

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