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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07574v1
• Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:52:01 GMT
• Title: Grammatical Error Correction in Low Error Density Domains: A New Benchmark and Analyses
• Authors: Simon Flachs, Oph\'elie Lacroix, Helen Yannakoudakis, Marek Rei, Anders S{\o}gaard
• Abstract summary: We 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. 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.
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• Abstract: 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.

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