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Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) aims to automatically detect and correct grammatical errors. In this aspect, dominant models are trained by one-iteration learning while performing multiple iterations of corrections during inference.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Shaopeng Lai , Qingyu Zhou , Jiali Zeng , Zhongli Li , Chao Li , Yunbo Cao , Jinsong Su

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

Grammar error correction (GEC) systems have become ubiquitous in a variety of software applications, and have started to approach human-level performance for some datasets. However, very little is known about how to efficiently personalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Maria Nadejde , Joel Tetreault

Automatic evaluation in grammatical error correction (GEC) is crucial for selecting the best-performing systems. Currently, reference-based metrics are a popular choice, which basically measure the similarity between hypothesis and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Takumi Goto , Yusuke Sakai , Taro Watanabe

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

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

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is a task of detecting and correcting grammatical errors in sentences. Recently, neural machine translation systems have become popular approaches for this task. However, these methods lack the use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Zhaohong Wan , Xiaojun Wan

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

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is a well-explored problem in English with many existing models and datasets. However, research on GEC in morphologically rich languages has been limited due to challenges such as data scarcity and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Bashar Alhafni , Go Inoue , Christian Khairallah , Nizar Habash

Current Grammar Error Correction (GEC) initiatives tend to focus on major languages, with less attention given to low-resource languages like Esperanto. In this article, we begin to bridge this gap by first conducting a comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Junhong Liang

This study investigates how supervised quality estimation (QE) models of grammatical error correction (GEC) are affected by the learners' proficiency with the data. QE models for GEC evaluations in prior work have obtained a high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yujin Takahashi , Masahiro Kaneko , Masato Mita , Mamoru Komachi

Post-editing (PE) machine translation (MT) is widely used for dissemination because it leads to higher productivity than human translation from scratch (HT). In addition, PE translations are found to be of equal or better quality than HTs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Antonio Toral

To solve the Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) problem , a mapping between a source sequence and a target one is needed, where the two differ only on few spans. For this reason, the attention has been shifted to the non-autoregressive or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Kamal Al-Sabahi , Kang Yang , Wangwang Liu , Guanyu Jiang , Xian Li , Ming Yang

Time efficiency is paramount for the localisation industry, which demands ever-faster turnaround times. However, translation speed is largely underresearched, and there is a lack of clarity about how language service providers (LSPs) can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Silvia Terribile

This preliminary study investigates the usefulness of sentence-level Quality Estimation (QE) in English-Chinese Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE), focusing on its impact on post-editing speed and student translators' perceptions. It…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Siqi Liu , Guangrong Dai , Dechao Li

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

Evaluation of grammatical error correction (GEC) systems has primarily focused on essays written by non-native learners of English, which however is only part of the full spectrum of GEC applications. We aim to broaden the target domain of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Simon Flachs , Ophélie Lacroix , Helen Yannakoudakis , Marek Rei , Anders Søgaard

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

Existing studies explore the explainability of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) in a limited scenario, where they ignore the interaction between corrections and explanations and have not established a corresponding comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jingheng Ye , Shang Qin , Yinghui Li , Xuxin Cheng , Libo Qin , Hai-Tao Zheng , Ying Shen , Peng Xing , Zishan Xu , Guo Cheng , Wenhao Jiang

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