NAIST at 2013 CoNLL Grammatical Error Correction Shared Task
Ippei Yoshimoto, Tomoya Kose, Kensuke Mitsuzawa, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Tomoya Mizumoto, Yuta Hayashibe, Mamoru Komachi, Yūji Matsumoto · Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning · 2013
This paper describes the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) error correction system in the CoNLL 2013 Shared Task. We constructed three systems: a system based on the Treelet Language Model for verb form and subjectverb agreement errors; a classifier trained on both learner and native corpora for noun number errors; a statistical machine translation (SMT)-based model for preposition and determiner errors. As for subject-verb agreement errors, we show that the Treelet Language Model-based approach can correct errors in which the target verb is distant from its subject. Our system ranked fourth on the official run.