| Challenge: | Existing reference-less measures (RLMs) for measuring grammaticality are expensive to collect and limited by the large number of valid outputs. |
| Approach: | They propose a semantic measure for Grammatical Error Correction that compares the semantic symbolic structure of the source and correction without relying on manually-curated references. |
| Outcome: | The proposed measure shows that it can be applied consistently to ungrammatical text, and that valid corrections obtain a high USim similarity score to the source, and invalid corrections get lower scores. |
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