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Register a new userBeyond Grammatical Error Correction: Improving L1-influenced research writing in English using pre-trained encoder-decoder models
ما وراء تصحيح الأخطاء النحوية: تحسين الكتابة الباحثية التي تأثرت L1 باللغة الإنجليزية باستخدام نماذج ترميز التشفير المدربة مسبقا
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في هذه الورقة، نقدم طريقة جديدة لتدريب نموذج تحسين الكتابة تتكيف مع لغة الكاتب الأولى (L1) التي تتجاوز تصحيح الخطأ النحوي (GEC).بدون استخدام بيانات التدريب المشروح، فإننا نعتمد فقط على نماذج اللغة المدربة مسبقا بشكل جيد مع الترجمة المرجانية المتوازية المحاذاة مع الترجمة الآلية.نحن نقيم نموذجنا مع شركة كورسا للأوراق الأكاديمية المكتوبة باللغة الإنجليزية من قبل علماء L1 البرتغالية و L1 الإسبان وشركة مرجعية من الخبراء الإنجليزية الأكاديمية.نظرا لأن طرازنا قادر على معالجة الكتابة المحددة التي أثرت على L1 والأظاهرة اللغوية أكثر تعقيدا من الأساليب الحالية، مما يتفوق على ما يمكن أن يحققه نظام GEC للحكومة في هذا الصدد.الكود والبيانات لدينا مفتوحة للباحثين الآخرين.
In this paper, we present a new method for training a writing improvement model adapted to the writer's first language (L1) that goes beyond grammatical error correction (GEC). Without using annotated training data, we rely solely on pre-trained language models fine-tuned with parallel corpora of reference translation aligned with machine translation. We evaluate our model with corpora of academic papers written in English by L1 Portuguese and L1 Spanish scholars and a reference corpus of expert academic English. We show that our model is able to address specific L1-influenced writing and more complex linguistic phenomena than existing methods, outperforming what a state-of-the-art GEC system can achieve in this regard. Our code and data are open to other researchers.
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