Encode Errors: Representational Retrieval of In-Context Demonstrations for Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15416v1
• Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:00:26 GMT
• Title: Encode Errors: Representational Retrieval of In-Context Demonstrations for Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction
• Abstract summary: Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) involves detecting and correcting the wrong usage of grammar.<n>Large language models (LLMs) with in-context learning (ICL) capabilities have shown significant progress on various natural language processing (NLP) tasks.<n>This is mainly due to the challenge of retrieving suitable in-context demonstrations that capture error patterns instead of semantic similarity.
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• Abstract: Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) involves detecting and correcting the wrong usage of grammar. While large language models (LLMs) with in-context learning (ICL) capabilities have shown significant progress on various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, their few-shot performance on GEC remains suboptimal. This is mainly due to the challenge of retrieving suitable in-context demonstrations that capture error patterns instead of semantic similarity. In this paper, we demonstrate that LLMs can inherently capture information related to grammatical errors through their internal states. From these states, we extract the Grammatical Error Representation (GER), an informative and semantically neutral encoding of grammatical errors. Our novel GER-based retrieval method significantly boosts performance in ICL settings on multilingual GEC datasets, improving the precision of correction. For high-resource languages, our results on 8B-sized open-source models match those of closed-source models such as Deepseek2.5 and GPT-4o-mini. For low-resource languages, our $F_{0.5}$ scores surpass the baseline by up to a factor of 1.20. This method provides a more precise and resource-efficient solution for multilingual GEC, offering a promising direction for interpretable GEC research.

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