Multi-Error Modeling and Fluency-Targeted Pre-training for Chinese Essay Evaluation

Zhang Jingshen, Yang Xiangyu, Su Xinkai, Chen Xinglu, Huang Tianyou, Qiu Xinying


Abstract
“This system report presents our approaches and results for the Chinese Essay Fluency Evaluation (CEFE) task at CCL-2024. For Track 1, we optimized predictions for challenging fine-grained error types using binary classification models and trained coarse-grained models on the Chinese Learner 4W corpus. In Track 2, we enhanced performance by constructing a pseudo-dataset with multiple error types per sentence. For Track 3, where we achieved first place, we generated fluency-rated pseudo-data via back-translation for pretraining and used an NSP-based strategy with Symmetric Cross Entropy loss to capture context and mitigate long dependencies. Our methods effectively address key challenges in Chinese Essay Fluency Evaluation.”
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2024.ccl-3.30
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Proceedings of the 23rd Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: Evaluations)
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July
Year:
2024
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Taiyuan, China
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Hongfei Lin, Hongye Tan, Bin Li
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CCL
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Chinese Information Processing Society of China
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269–277
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English
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Zhang Jingshen, Yang Xiangyu, Su Xinkai, Chen Xinglu, Huang Tianyou, and Qiu Xinying. 2024. Multi-Error Modeling and Fluency-Targeted Pre-training for Chinese Essay Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 23rd Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: Evaluations), pages 269–277, Taiyuan, China. Chinese Information Processing Society of China.
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Multi-Error Modeling and Fluency-Targeted Pre-training for Chinese Essay Evaluation (Jingshen et al., CCL 2024)
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