Grammar Error Correction Using Pseudo-Error Sentences and Domain Adaptation

Kenji Imamura, Kuniko Saito, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Hitoshi Nishikawa

Abstract: This paper presents grammar error correction for Japanese particles that uses discriminative sequence conversion, which corrects erroneous particles by substitution, insertion, and deletion. The error correction task is hindered by the difficulty of collecting large error corpora. We tackle this problem by using pseudo-error sentences generated automatically. Furthermore, we apply domain adaptation, the pseudo-error sentences are from the source domain, and the real-error sentences are from the target domain. Experiments show that stable improvement is achieved by using domain adaptation.