Systematically Adapting Machine Translation for Grammatical Error Correction

Courtney Napoles, Chris Callison-Burch


Abstract
n this work we adapt machine translation (MT) to grammatical error correction, identifying how components of the statistical MT pipeline can be modified for this task and analyzing how each modification impacts system performance. We evaluate the contribution of each of these components with standard evaluation metrics and automatically characterize the morphological and lexical transformations made in system output. Our model rivals the current state of the art using a fraction of the training data.
Anthology ID:
W17-5039
Volume:
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Joel Tetreault, Jill Burstein, Claudia Leacock, Helen Yannakoudakis
Venue:
BEA
SIG:
SIGEDU
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
345–356
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-5039
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-5039
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Courtney Napoles and Chris Callison-Burch. 2017. Systematically Adapting Machine Translation for Grammatical Error Correction. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 345–356, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Systematically Adapting Machine Translation for Grammatical Error Correction (Napoles & Callison-Burch, BEA 2017)
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-5039.pdf
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