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TransGEC: Improving Grammatical Error Correction with Translationese | |
Fang, Tao1; Liu, Xuebo2,3; Wong, Derek F.1; Zhan, Runzhe1; Ding, Liang4; Chao, Lidia S.1; Tao, Dacheng5; Zhang, Min2,3 | |
2023 | |
Conference Name | 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023 |
Source Publication | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
Pages | 3614-3633 |
Conference Date | 9 July 2023through 14 July 2023 |
Conference Place | Toronto |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Abstract | Data augmentation is an effective way to improve model performance of grammatical error correction (GEC). This paper identifies a critical side-effect of GEC data augmentation, which is due to the style discrepancy between the data used in GEC tasks (i.e., texts produced by non-native speakers) and data augmentation (i.e., native texts). To alleviate this issue, we propose to use an alternative data source, translationese (i.e., human-translated texts), as input for GEC data augmentation, which 1) is easier to obtain and usually has better quality than non-native texts, and 2) has a more similar style to non-native texts. Experimental results on the CoNLL14 and BEA19 English, NLPCC18 Chinese, Falko-MERLIN German, and RULEC-GEC Russian GEC benchmarks show that our approach consistently improves correction accuracy over strong baselines. Further analyses reveal that our approach is helpful for overcoming mainstream correction difficulties such as the corrections of frequent words, missing words, and substitution errors. Data, code, models and scripts are freely available at https://github.com/NLP2CT/TransGEC. |
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Language | 英語English |
Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85174387119 |
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Document Type | Conference paper |
Collection | Faculty of Science and Technology DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE |
Corresponding Author | Liu, Xuebo; Wong, Derek F. |
Affiliation | 1.NLP, 2.CT Lab, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Macao 3.Institute of Computing and Intelligence, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China 4.JD Explore Academy, China 5.The University of Sydney, Australia |
Corresponding Author Affilication | University of Macau |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Fang, Tao,Liu, Xuebo,Wong, Derek F.,et al. TransGEC: Improving Grammatical Error Correction with Translationese[C]:Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023, 3614-3633. |
APA | Fang, Tao., Liu, Xuebo., Wong, Derek F.., Zhan, Runzhe., Ding, Liang., Chao, Lidia S.., Tao, Dacheng., & Zhang, Min (2023). TransGEC: Improving Grammatical Error Correction with Translationese. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 3614-3633. |
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