Assessing the Efficacy of Grammar Error Correction: A Human Evaluation Approach in the Japanese Context

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18101v2
• Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:53:40 GMT
• Title: Assessing the Efficacy of Grammar Error Correction: A Human Evaluation Approach in the Japanese Context
• Authors: Qiao Wang and Zheng Yuan
• Abstract summary: We evaluate the performance of the state-of-the-art sequence tagging grammar error detection and correction model (SeqTagger) With an automatic annotation toolkit, ERRANT, we first evaluated SeqTagger's performance on error correction with human expert correction as the benchmark. Results indicated a precision of 63.66% and a recall of 20.19% for error correction in the full dataset.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this study, we evaluated the performance of the state-of-the-art sequence tagging grammar error detection and correction model (SeqTagger) using Japanese university students' writing samples. With an automatic annotation toolkit, ERRANT, we first evaluated SeqTagger's performance on error correction with human expert correction as the benchmark. Then a human-annotated approach was adopted to evaluate Seqtagger's performance in error detection using a subset of the writing dataset. Results indicated a precision of 63.66% and a recall of 20.19% for error correction in the full dataset. For the subset, after manual exclusion of irrelevant errors such as semantic and mechanical ones, the model shows an adjusted precision of 97.98% and an adjusted recall of 42.98% for error detection, indicating the model's high accuracy but also its conservativeness. Thematic analysis on errors undetected by the model revealed that determiners and articles, especially the latter, were predominant. Specifically, in terms of context-independent errors, the model occasionally overlooked basic ones and faced challenges with overly erroneous or complex structures. Meanwhile, context-dependent errors, notably those related to tense and noun number, as well as those possibly influenced by the students' first language (L1), remained particularly challenging.

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