Adjusting the Precision-Recall Trade-Off with Align-and-Predict Decoding for Grammatical Error Correction (2022.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Modern writing assistance applications always contain a Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) model to correct errors in user-entered sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose a simple yet effective approach to Align-and-Predict Decoding for most popular sequence-to-sequence models to offer more flexibility for the precision-recall trade-off. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be used in both English and Chinese GEC models and achieve state-of-the-art results. |
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