UA-GEC: Grammatical Error Correction and Fluency Corpus for the Ukrainian Language

Oleksiy Syvokon, Olena Nahorna, Pavlo Kuchmiichuk, Nastasiia Osidach


Abstract
We present a corpus professionally annotated for grammatical error correction (GEC) and fluency edits in the Ukrainian language. We have built two versions of the corpus – GEC+Fluency and GEC-only – to differentiate the corpus application. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first GEC corpus for the Ukrainian language. We collected texts with errors (33,735 sentences) from a diverse pool of contributors, including both native and non-native speakers. The data cover a wide variety of writing domains, from text chats and essays to formal writing. Professional proofreaders corrected and annotated the corpus for errors relating to fluency, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. This corpus can be used for developing and evaluating GEC systems in Ukrainian. More generally, it can be used for researching multilingual and low-resource NLP, morphologically rich languages, document-level GEC, and fluency correction. The corpus is publicly available at https://github.com/grammarly/ua-gec
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2023.unlp-1.12
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Proceedings of the Second Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP)
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May
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2023
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Mariana Romanyshyn
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UNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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96–102
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.unlp-1.12
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.unlp-1.12
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Oleksiy Syvokon, Olena Nahorna, Pavlo Kuchmiichuk, and Nastasiia Osidach. 2023. UA-GEC: Grammatical Error Correction and Fluency Corpus for the Ukrainian Language. In Proceedings of the Second Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP), pages 96–102, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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UA-GEC: Grammatical Error Correction and Fluency Corpus for the Ukrainian Language (Syvokon et al., UNLP 2023)
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