Research seminar: Really good grammatical error correction, and how to evaluate it

About the seminar
Grammatical error correction (GEC) has received relatively little attention for Swedish, with much of the important work published two decades ago. We perform a thorough evaluation using both automatic and manual methods of three very different types of models: the rule-based Granska system, a sequence-to-sequence model trained on artificial data, and the GPT-3 language model in a few-shot setup. We find that GPT-3 by far outperforms the other GEC systems for Swedish, a language comprising only 0.11% of its training data. When evaluating this heterogeneous set of GEC systems, we were also able to investigate how different evaluation methods are biased towards certain types of systems.

Robert Östling is a researcher in computational linguistics.
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Registration
To register for this seminar, send an e-mail to Harko Verhagen, verhagen@dsv.su.se.
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There are a limited number of seats in room M20 at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) which is located in the Nod building, Borgarfjordsgatan 12, Kista.
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For online participants, a Zoom link will be available upon registration.