Challenge: errant is a new evaluation tool that can be used to evaluate end-to-end grammatical error correction systems.
Approach: They propose a method to assess end-to-end grammatical error correction systems using alignment-based alignment methods that reproduce and improve results from existing evaluation tools.
Outcome: The proposed method reproduces and improves results from existing evaluation tools, such as errant, even when applied to raw text input.

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