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Focal Training and Tagger Decouple for Grammatical Error Correction

  • Minghuan Tan
  • , Min Yang*
  • , Ruifeng Xu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate how to improve tagging-based Grammatical Error Correction models. We address two issues of current tagging-based approaches, label imbalance issue, and tagging entanglement issue. Then we propose to down-weight the loss of correctly classified labels using Focal Loss and decouple the error detection layer from the label tagging layer through an extra self-attention-based matching module. Experiments on three recent Chinese Grammatical Error Correction datasets show that our proposed methods are effective. We further analyze choices of hyper-parameters for Focal Loss and inference tweaking.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages5978-5985
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781959429623
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
EventFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: 9 Jul 202314 Jul 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Conference

ConferenceFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period9/07/2314/07/23

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