Grammatical error correction: A survey of the state of the art

C Bryant, Z Yuan, MR Qorib, H Cao, HT Ng… - Computational …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is the task of automatically detecting and
correcting errors in text. The task not only includes the correction of grammatical errors, such …

A comprehensive survey of grammatical error correction

Y Wang, Y Wang, K Dang, J Liu, Z Liu - ACM Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Grammatical error correction (GEC) is an important application aspect of natural language
processing techniques, and GEC system is a kind of very important intelligent system that …

The BEA-2019 shared task on grammatical error correction

C Bryant, M Felice, ØE Andersen… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
This paper reports on the BEA-2019 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction (GEC).
As with the CoNLL-2014 shared task, participants are required to correct all types of errors in …

Neural grammatical error correction systems with unsupervised pre-training on synthetic data

R Grundkiewicz, M Junczys-Dowmuntz… - 14th Workshop on …, 2019 - research.ed.ac.uk
Considerable effort has been made to address the data sparsity problem in neural
grammatical error correction. In this work, we propose a simple and surprisingly effective …

Approaching neural grammatical error correction as a low-resource machine translation task

M Junczys-Dowmunt, R Grundkiewicz, S Guha… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Previously, neural methods in grammatical error correction (GEC) did not reach state-of-the-
art results compared to phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) baselines. We …

Seq2Edits: Sequence transduction using span-level edit operations

F Stahlberg, S Kumar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2009.11136, 2020 - arxiv.org
We propose Seq2Edits, an open-vocabulary approach to sequence editing for natural
language processing (NLP) tasks with a high degree of overlap between input and output …

Neural language correction with character-based attention

Z **e, A Avati, N Arivazhagan, D Jurafsky… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
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 …

Near human-level performance in grammatical error correction with hybrid machine translation

R Grundkiewicz, M Junczys-Dowmunt - arxiv preprint arxiv:1804.05945, 2018 - arxiv.org
We combine two of the most popular approaches to automated Grammatical Error
Correction (GEC): GEC based on Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and GEC based on …

Phrase-based machine translation is state-of-the-art for automatic grammatical error correction

M Junczys-Dowmunt, R Grundkiewicz - arxiv preprint arxiv:1605.06353, 2016 - arxiv.org
In this work, we study parameter tuning towards the M^ 2 metric, the standard metric for
automatic grammar error correction (GEC) tasks. After implementing M^ 2 as a scorer in the …

Data weighted training strategies for grammatical error correction

J Lichtarge, C Alberti, S Kumar - Transactions of the Association for …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
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 …