Improving Chinese Spelling Check by Character Pronunciation Prediction: The Effects of Adaptivity and Granularity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10996v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 03:42:35 GMT
• Title: Improving Chinese Spelling Check by Character Pronunciation Prediction: The Effects of Adaptivity and Granularity
• Authors: Jiahao Li, Quan Wang, Zhendong Mao, Junbo Guo, Yanyan Yang, Yongdong Zhang
• Abstract summary: Chinese spelling check (CSC) is a fundamental NLP task that detects and corrects spelling errors in Chinese texts. In this paper, we consider introducing an auxiliary task of Chinese pronunciation prediction ( CPP) to improve CSC. We propose SCOPE which builds on top of a shared encoder two parallel decoders, one for the primary CSC task and the other for a fine-grained auxiliary CPP task.
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• Abstract: Chinese spelling check (CSC) is a fundamental NLP task that detects and corrects spelling errors in Chinese texts. As most of these spelling errors are caused by phonetic similarity, effectively modeling the pronunciation of Chinese characters is a key factor for CSC. In this paper, we consider introducing an auxiliary task of Chinese pronunciation prediction (CPP) to improve CSC, and, for the first time, systematically discuss the adaptivity and granularity of this auxiliary task. We propose SCOPE which builds on top of a shared encoder two parallel decoders, one for the primary CSC task and the other for a fine-grained auxiliary CPP task, with a novel adaptive weighting scheme to balance the two tasks. In addition, we design a delicate iterative correction strategy for further improvements during inference. Empirical evaluation shows that SCOPE achieves new state-of-the-art on three CSC benchmarks, demonstrating the effectiveness and superiority of the auxiliary CPP task. Comprehensive ablation studies further verify the positive effects of adaptivity and granularity of the task. Code and data used in this paper are publicly available at https://github.com/jiahaozhenbang/SCOPE.

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