Improving the Efficiency of Grammatical Error Correction with Erroneous Span Detection and Correction

Mengyun Chen, Tao Ge, Xingxing Zhang, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

NLP Applications Short Paper

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Abstract: We propose a novel language-independent approach to improve the efficiency for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) by dividing the task into two subtasks: Erroneous Span Detection (ESD) and Erroneous Span Correction (ESC). ESD identifies grammatically incorrect text spans with an efficient sequence tagging model. Then, ESC leverages a seq2seq model to take the sentence with annotated erroneous spans as input and only outputs the corrected text for these spans. Experiments show our approach performs comparably to conventional seq2seq approaches in both English and Chinese GEC benchmarks with less than 50% time cost for inference.
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