@inproceedings{lin-ng-2021-system,
title = "System Combination for Grammatical Error Correction Based on Integer Programming",
author = "Lin, Ruixi and
Ng, Hwee Tou",
editor = "Mitkov, Ruslan and
Angelova, Galia",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021)",
month = sep,
year = "2021",
address = "Held Online",
publisher = "INCOMA Ltd.",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.ranlp-1.94/",
pages = "824--829",
abstract = "In this paper, we propose a system combination method for grammatical error correction (GEC), based on nonlinear integer programming (IP). Our method optimizes a novel F score objective based on error types, and combines multiple end-to-end GEC systems. The proposed IP approach optimizes the selection of a single best system for each grammatical error type present in the data. Experiments of the IP approach on combining state-of-the-art standalone GEC systems show that the combined system outperforms all standalone systems. It improves F0.5 score by 3.61{\%} when combining the two best participating systems in the BEA 2019 shared task, and achieves F0.5 score of 73.08{\%}. We also perform experiments to compare our IP approach with another state-of-the-art system combination method for GEC, demonstrating IP`s competitive combination capability."
}
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T System Combination for Grammatical Error Correction Based on Integer Programming
%A Lin, Ruixi
%A Ng, Hwee Tou
%Y Mitkov, Ruslan
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%X In this paper, we propose a system combination method for grammatical error correction (GEC), based on nonlinear integer programming (IP). Our method optimizes a novel F score objective based on error types, and combines multiple end-to-end GEC systems. The proposed IP approach optimizes the selection of a single best system for each grammatical error type present in the data. Experiments of the IP approach on combining state-of-the-art standalone GEC systems show that the combined system outperforms all standalone systems. It improves F0.5 score by 3.61% when combining the two best participating systems in the BEA 2019 shared task, and achieves F0.5 score of 73.08%. We also perform experiments to compare our IP approach with another state-of-the-art system combination method for GEC, demonstrating IP‘s competitive combination capability.
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%P 824-829
Markdown (Informal)
[System Combination for Grammatical Error Correction Based on Integer Programming](https://aclanthology.org/2021.ranlp-1.94/) (Lin & Ng, RANLP 2021)
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