Neural network approach to grammatical error correction without annotated data

Kazuya Uekado, Susumu Mori, Taku Harada, Hayato Ohwada

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Abstract

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is an important role for English Learners. In recent years, the competitions of this task were held. Therefore, researches about automatic GEC are very active. Many research about this task uses a machine translation method. Although machine translations output a high performance, training and parameter tuning need a large amount of annotated data. Generally, collecting annotated data is very expensive. We should avoid using annotated datasets. This paper proposes a method without annotated data. Our method uses only native data because obtaining native data is easier from websites. Language model and classification correct errors. The language model can correct multiple errors and a classification method improves the performance of corrections. For training model, we use neural networks because these methods achieved success in various natural language processing tasks. As a result, our approach got the decent performance on CoNLL-2014 test datasets. We show an effectivity of automated GEC without annotated data.

Original languageEnglish
Pages58-62
Number of pages5
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event10th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, IMCIC 2019 - Orlando, United States
Duration: 12 Mar 201915 Mar 2019

Conference

Conference10th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, IMCIC 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando
Period12/03/1915/03/19

Keywords

  • Grammatical Error Correction
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Neural Language Model
  • Neural Network

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