Explanation based In-Context Demonstrations Retrieval for Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08507v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:41:43 GMT
• Title: Explanation based In-Context Demonstrations Retrieval for Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction
• Authors: Wei Li, Wen Luo, Guangyue Peng, Houfeng Wang,
• Abstract summary: Grammatical error correction (GEC) aims to correct grammatical, spelling, and semantic errors in natural language text. We propose a novel retrieval method based on natural language grammatical error explanations (GEE) Our method retrieves suitable few-shot demonstrations by matching the GEE of the test input with that of pre-constructed database samples.
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• Abstract: Grammatical error correction (GEC) aims to correct grammatical, spelling, and semantic errors in natural language text. With the growing of large language models (LLMs), direct text generation has gradually become the focus of the GEC methods, and few-shot in-context learning presents a cost-effective solution. However, selecting effective in-context examples remains challenging, as the similarity between input texts does not necessarily correspond to similar grammatical error patterns. In this paper, we propose a novel retrieval method based on natural language grammatical error explanations (GEE) to address this issue. Our method retrieves suitable few-shot demonstrations by matching the GEE of the test input with that of pre-constructed database samples, where explanations for erroneous samples are generated by LLMs. We conducted multilingual GEC few-shot experiments on both major open-source and closed-source LLMs. Experiments across five languages show that our method outperforms existing semantic and BM25-based retrieval techniques, without requiring additional training or language adaptation. This also suggests that matching error patterns is key to selecting examples.

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