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    <abstract>Grammatical error correction, like other machine learning tasks, greatly benefits from large quantities of high quality training data, which is typically expensive to produce. While writing a program to automatically generate realistic grammatical errors would be difficult, one could learn the distribution of naturally-occurring errors and attempt to introduce them into other datasets. Initial work on inducing errors in this way using statistical machine translation has shown promise; we investigate cheaply constructing synthetic samples, given a small corpus of human-annotated data, using an off-the-rack attentive sequence-to-sequence model and a straight-forward post-processing procedure. Our approach yields error-filled artificial data that helps a vanilla bi-directional LSTM to outperform the previous state of the art at grammatical error detection, and a previously introduced model to gain further improvements of over 5% F0.5 score. When attempting to determine if a given sentence is synthetic, a human annotator at best achieves 39.39 F1 score, indicating that our model generates mostly human-like instances.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Wronging a Right: Generating Better Errors to Improve Grammatical Error Detection
%A Kasewa, Sudhanshu
%A Stenetorp, Pontus
%A Riedel, Sebastian
%Y Riloff, Ellen
%Y Chiang, David
%Y Hockenmaier, Julia
%Y Tsujii, Jun’ichi
%S Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2018
%8 oct nov
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Brussels, Belgium
%F kasewa-etal-2018-wronging
%X Grammatical error correction, like other machine learning tasks, greatly benefits from large quantities of high quality training data, which is typically expensive to produce. While writing a program to automatically generate realistic grammatical errors would be difficult, one could learn the distribution of naturally-occurring errors and attempt to introduce them into other datasets. Initial work on inducing errors in this way using statistical machine translation has shown promise; we investigate cheaply constructing synthetic samples, given a small corpus of human-annotated data, using an off-the-rack attentive sequence-to-sequence model and a straight-forward post-processing procedure. Our approach yields error-filled artificial data that helps a vanilla bi-directional LSTM to outperform the previous state of the art at grammatical error detection, and a previously introduced model to gain further improvements of over 5% F0.5 score. When attempting to determine if a given sentence is synthetic, a human annotator at best achieves 39.39 F1 score, indicating that our model generates mostly human-like instances.
%R 10.18653/v1/D18-1541
%U https://aclanthology.org/D18-1541
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D18-1541
%P 4977-4983

Markdown (Informal)

[Wronging a Right: Generating Better Errors to Improve Grammatical Error Detection](https://aclanthology.org/D18-1541) (Kasewa et al., EMNLP 2018)

• Wronging a Right: Generating Better Errors to Improve Grammatical Error Detection (Kasewa et al., EMNLP 2018)

ACL

• Sudhanshu Kasewa, Pontus Stenetorp, and Sebastian Riedel. 2018. Wronging a Right: Generating Better Errors to Improve Grammatical Error Detection. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4977–4983, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.