Shortage of available training data is holding back progress in the area of automated error detection. This paper investigates two alternative methods for artificially generating writing errors, in order to create additional resources. We propose treating error generation as a machine translation task, where grammatically correct text is translated to contain errors. In addition, we explore a system for extracting textual patterns from an annotated corpus, which can then be used to insert errors into grammatically correct sentences. Our experiments show that the inclusion of artificially generated errors significantly improves error detection accuracy on both FCE and CoNLL 2014 datasets.
@article{arxiv.1707.05236,
title = {Artificial Error Generation with Machine Translation and Syntactic Patterns},
author = {Marek Rei and Mariano Felice and Zheng Yuan and Ted Briscoe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.05236},
year = {2017}
}
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The 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2017)