Challenge: Existing neural network approaches have achieved great progress on Chinese spelling correction, but there is still room for improvement.
Approach: They propose an error-guided correction model that uses pre-trained BERT models to detect errors and integrate the error confusion set into the model.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on widely used benchmarks and achieves superior performance on both quality and computation speed.

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