Noisy Channel for Low Resource Grammatical Error Correction

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This paper describes our contribution to the low-resource track of the BEA 2019 shared task on Grammatical Error Correction (GEC). Our approach to GEC builds on the theory of the noisy channel by combining a channel model and language model. We generate confusion sets from the Wikipedia edit history and use the frequencies of edits to estimate the channel model. Additionally, we use two pre-trained language models: 1) Google’s BERT model, which we fine-tune for specific error types and 2) OpenAI’s GPT-2 model, utilizing that it can operate with previous sentences as context. Furthermore, we search for the optimal combinations of corrections using beam search.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Publication date2019
Pages191-196
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event14th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications - Florence, Italy
Duration: 2 Aug 2019 → …

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Workshop14th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
ByFlorence, Italy
Periode02/08/2019 → …

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