A Simple Recipe for Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction

This paper presents a simple recipe to train state-of-the-art multilingual Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) models. We achieve this by first proposing a language-agnostic method to generate a large number of synthetic examples. The second ingredient is to use large-scale multilingual language models (up to 11B parameters). Once fine-tuned on language-specific supervised sets we surpass the previous state-of-the-art results on GEC benchmarks in four languages: English, Czech, German and Russian. Having established a new set of baselines for GEC, we make our results easily reproducible and accessible by releasing a cLang-8 dataset. It is produced by using our best model, which we call gT5, to clean the targets of a widely used yet noisy lang-8 dataset. cLang-8 greatly simplifies typical GEC training pipelines composed of multiple fine-tuning stages -- we demonstrate that performing a single fine-tuning step on cLang-8 with the off-the-shelf language models yields further accuracy improvements over an already top-performing gT5 model for English.

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Ranked #3 on Grammatical Error Correction on Falko-MERLIN (using extra training data)

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Uses Extra
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Grammatical Error Correction CoNLL-2014 Shared Task T5 F0.5 68.87 # 7
Grammatical Error Correction Falko-MERLIN gT5 xxl F0.5 75.96 # 3

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