Round-Trip Translation for Automated Grammatical Error Correction
- Author(s):
- Madnani, Nitin; Tetreault, Joel R.; Chodorow, Martin
- Patent Issued:
- May 17, 2016
- Patent Number:
- 9,342,499
- Source:
- ETS Patent
- Document Type:
- Patent
- Family ID:
- 51569777
- Subject/Key Words:
- Patent, Active Patent, Grammatical Error Detection, Automated Essay Scoring (AES), Error Analysis, Machine Translation, Automated Scoring and Natural Language Processing
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for correcting a grammatical error in a text sequence. A first text sequence in a first language is received. The first text sequence is translated to a second language to provide a first translated text. The first text sequence is translated to a third language to provide a second translated text. The third language is different from the second language. The first translated text is translated to the first language to provide a first back translation. The second translated text is translated to the first language to provide a second back translation. A plurality of candidate text sequences that include features of the first back translation and the second back translation are determined. The plurality of candidate text sequences include alternative grammatical options for the first text sequence. The plurality of candidate text sequences are scored with the processing system.