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GM-RKB WikiText Error Correction Task and Baselines

1 May 2020LREC 2020 5archive 2025-07-28

Gabor Melli, Abdelrhman Eldallal, Bassim Lazem, Olga Moreira

We introduce the GM-RKB WikiText Error Correction Task for the automatic detection and correction of typographical errors in WikiText annotated pages. The included corpus is based on a snapshot of the GM-RKB domain-specific semantic wiki consisting of a large collection of concepts, personages, and publications primary centered on data mining and machine learning research topics. Numerous Wikipedia pages were also included as additional training data in the task{'}s evaluation process. The corpus was then automatically updated to synthetically include realistic errors to produce a training and evaluation ground truth comparison. We designed and evaluated two supervised baseline WikiFixer error correction methods: (1) a naive approach based on a maximum likelihood character-level language model; (2) and an advanced model based on a sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) neural network architecture. Both error correction models operated at a character level. When compared against an off-the-shelf word-level spell checker these methods showed a significant improvement in the task{'}s performance {--} with the seq2seq-based model correcting a higher number of errors than it introduced. Finally, we published our data and code.

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