Automatic Correction of Grammatical Errors in English learner Writing

張祐維(Chang, Yu Wei)

指導教授 ： 張俊盛

國立清華大學/電機資訊學院/資訊系統與應用研究所/碩士(2014年)

摘要

英語學習者在寫作時，常犯下各種錯誤而不自知，本篇論文中，我們提出一個英文自動文法改錯的方法。我們利用語言模型，及數個針對性的特徵值，為不同類型的常見錯誤設計改錯模組，我們將易混淆字代換入學習者書寫的原句，得到多組候選句，並衡量原句與候選句何者較優。實驗結果顯示，我們的方法在改正英語學習者文法錯誤上以不錯的表現。

關鍵字

自動文法改錯 ； 英語學習 ； 語言模型 ； 易混淆字

並列摘要

In this paper, we describe a system for correcting grammatical errors in texts written by non-native English learners. In our approach, a given sentence is sent to a number of modules, each focuses on a specific error type. The modules apply different approaches tailored to different types of errors, mostly based on probabilities of language models. A main program integrates corrections from these modules and outputs the corrected sen- tence. We evaluated our system on the official test data of the CoNLL-2014 shared task and obtained 0.36 in F-measure.

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