IdEALS: Idiomatic Expressions for Advancement of Language Skills
This work addresses the enhancement of language skills for students by focusing on idiomatic expression usage, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing GEC methods without introducing a new paradigm.
The paper tackled the problem of improving word choice and expressivity in student writing by incorporating idiomatic expressions, a previously understudied aspect of Grammatical Error Correction, and evaluated various approaches against human experts using curated datasets.
Although significant progress has been made in developing methods for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC), addressing word choice improvements has been notably lacking and enhancing sentence expressivity by replacing phrases with advanced expressions is an understudied aspect. In this paper, we focus on this area and present our investigation into the task of incorporating the usage of idiomatic expressions in student writing. To facilitate our study, we curate extensive training sets and expert-annotated testing sets using real-world data and evaluate various approaches and compare their performance against human experts.