Correction Detector

Want to summarize your revisions to a sentence?

Install

Starting the JSON-RPC server at port 8085, in two lines, with Docker

$ docker pull xuehuichao/correction_detector
$ docker run -d -p 8085:8085 xuehuichao/correction_detector

Usage

Compare two sentences with a JSON-RPC request. The server will respond with invidual corrections (e.g. error into errors), and their types (e.g. spelling error).

$ curl --data-binary '{"params" : ["This sentence might have contain error.", "This sentence might have some errors."], "id" : 0, "jsonrpc" : "2.0", "method" : "CorrDet"}' -H 'content-type:text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8085

{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "result": [["This sentence might have", null, null], ["contain", "some", "needs replacing"], ["error", "errors", "wrong noun form"], [".", null, null]], "id": 0}

You may also play the demo above on your local machine, by opening demo.html in your faviorate browser.

Intro

My algorithm compares an input sentence with its revision and figure out what errors have been corrected. We described the system in our ACL 2014's paper. Our system improved over a previous system by Swanson and Yamagil (2012). Our major technical improvement is in determining if several word edits are fixing one error. For example, if to change is revised into changing, then it is fixing one verb tense error; but when change to is revised into changing, then it may be fixing two errors, a verb tense, and a preposition usage. This subtle difference turned out to be one key decision in the full algorithm.

The detector was described in our paper in ACL 2014. Please feel free to use the following citation information:

@inproceedings{XueAndHwaACL2014,
  title={Improved Correction Detection in Revised {ESL} Sentences},
  author={Xue, Huichao and Hwa, Rebecca},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  year={2014},
  address   = {Baltimore, MD, USA},
  organization={Association for Computational Linguistics}
}

Note that I trained the models for correction extraction and error type selection on FCE corpus Here. Please review their licence terms before using this software package.

References

1. Yannakoudakis, H., Briscoe, T., & Medlock, B. (2011, June). A new dataset and method for automatically grading ESOL texts. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies-Volume 1 (pp. 180-189). Association for Computational Linguistics. Chicago
2. Swanson, B., & Yamangil, E. (2012, June). Correction detection and error type selection as an ESL educational aid. In Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp. 357-361). Association for Computational Linguistics.