Generate, Filter, and Rank: Grammaticality Classification for Production-Ready NLG Systems (N19-2)
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| Challenge: | Existing datasets for grammatical error correction don’t capture the distribution of errors that data-driven generators are likely to make. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that allows candidates to be filtered and ranked to select the best response. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can be scaled with relatively low effort and achieve high precision with reasonable recall on a weather domain dataset. |
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