Grammatical Error Correction in Low Error Density Domains: A New Benchmark and Analyses

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  • Simon Hellemann Flachs
  • Ophélie Lacroix
  • Helen Yannakoudakis
  • Marek Rei
  • Søgaard, Anders
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 GEC and release CWEB, a new benchmark for GEC consisting of website text generated by English speakers of varying levels of proficiency. Website data is a common and important domain that contains far fewer grammatical errors than learner essays, which we show presents a challenge to state-of-the-art GEC systems. We demonstrate that a factor behind this is the inability of systems to rely on a strong internal language model in low error density domains. We hope this work shall facilitate the development of open-domain GEC models that generalize to different topics and genres.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Publication date2020
Pages8467–8478
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
EventThe 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - online
Duration: 16 Nov 202020 Nov 2020
http://2020.emnlp.org

Conference

ConferenceThe 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Locationonline
Periode16/11/202020/11/2020
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