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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

Grammatical Error Detection and Correction (GEC) tools have proven useful for native speakers and second language learners. Developing such tools requires a large amount of parallel, annotated data, which is unavailable for most languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Atakan Kara , Farrin Marouf Sofian , Andrew Bond , Gözde Gül Şahin

Pretraining-based (PT-based) automatic evaluation metrics (e.g., BERTScore and BARTScore) have been widely used in several sentence generation tasks (e.g., machine translation and text summarization) due to their better correlation with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Peiyuan Gong , Xuebo Liu , Heyan Huang , Min Zhang

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

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) aims to correct writing errors and help language learners improve their writing skills. However, existing GEC models tend to produce spurious corrections or fail to detect lots of errors. The quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Zhenghao Liu , Xiaoyuan Yi , Maosong Sun , Liner Yang , Tat-Seng Chua

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 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

Grammatical error correction (GEC) systems strive to correct both global errors in word order and usage, and local errors in spelling and inflection. Further developing upon recent work on neural machine translation, we propose a new hybrid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Jianshu Ji , Qinlong Wang , Kristina Toutanova , Yongen Gong , Steven Truong , Jianfeng Gao

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

This study explores the necessity of performing cross-corpora evaluation for grammatical error correction (GEC) models. GEC models have been previously evaluated based on a single commonly applied corpus: the CoNLL-2014 benchmark. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Masato Mita , Tomoya Mizumoto , Masahiro Kaneko , Ryo Nagata , Kentaro Inui

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

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

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

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 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

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) 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

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

Grammatical error correction (GEC) aims to correct grammatical, spelling, and semantic errors in natural language text. With the growing of large language models (LLMs), direct text generation has gradually become the focus of the GEC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Wei Li , Wen Luo , Guangyue Peng , Houfeng Wang

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