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Using contextual speller techniques and language modeling for ESL error correction
- In Proceedings of IJCNLP 2008
"... We present a modular system for detection and correction of errors made by nonnative (English as a Second Language = ESL) writers. We focus on two error types: the incorrect use of determiners and the choice of prepositions. We use a decisiontree approach inspired by contextual spelling systems for ..."
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We present a modular system for detection and correction of errors made by nonnative (English as a Second Language = ESL) writers. We focus on two error types: the incorrect use of determiners and the choice of prepositions. We use a decisiontree approach inspired by contextual spelling systems for detection and correction suggestions, and a large language model trained on the Gigaword corpus to provide additional information to filter out spurious suggestions. We show how this system performs on a corpus of non-native English text and discuss strategies for future enhancements. 1

