Summary of Alirector: Alignment-enhanced Chinese Grammatical Error Corrector, by Haihui Yang and Xiaojun Quan
Alirector: Alignment-Enhanced Chinese Grammatical Error Corrector
by Haihui Yang, Xiaojun Quan
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper addresses a common challenge in Chinese grammatical error correction (CGEC) using autoregressive generative models, specifically sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models and decoder-only large language models (LLMs). The authors propose an alignment-enhanced corrector to alleviate overcorrection issues in both model types. The method involves training a correction model to generate an initial correction, followed by combining the source sentence with this initial correction and feeding it through an alignment model for another round of correction. To further enhance the model’s ability to identify nuances, the authors explore reverse alignment between the source sentence and initial correction. Finally, they transfer knowledge from two alignment models to the correction model, guiding it on how to avoid overcorrection. The paper presents experimental results on three CGEC datasets demonstrating the effectiveness of this approach in reducing overcorrection and improving overall performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about fixing mistakes in Chinese writing using special computer models. These models can sometimes make things worse by making too many corrections. The authors have a new way to fix this problem, which works for two different types of models. They first use one model to try to correct the mistake, then they use another model to check and refine the correction. This helps the model avoid making too many changes and getting things wrong. The authors tested their method on three sets of writing examples and showed that it makes a big difference in getting the corrections right. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Autoregressive » Decoder » Seq2seq
