Improving Grammatical Error Correction Models with Purpose-Built Adversarial Examples (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for grammatical error correction are data-hungry and it is hard to train a seq2seq model with good performance without suf-Clean. |
| Approach: | They propose a method inspired by adversarial training to generate more meaningful and valuable training examples by continually identifying weak spots of a model and to enhance the model by gradually adding adversarials to the training set. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves generalization and robustness of GEC models by adding adversarial examples to the training set. |
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