@InProceedings{sakaguchi-post-vandurme:2017:I17-2, author = {Sakaguchi, Keisuke and Post, Matt and Van Durme, Benjamin}, title = {Grammatical Error Correction with Neural Reinforcement Learning}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)}, month = {November}, year = {2017}, address = {Taipei, Taiwan}, publisher = {Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing}, pages = {366--372}, abstract = {We propose a neural encoder-decoder model with reinforcement learning (NRL) for grammatical error correction (GEC). Unlike conventional maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), the model directly optimizes towards an objective that considers a sentence-level, task-specific evaluation metric, avoiding the exposure bias issue in MLE. We demonstrate that NRL outperforms MLE both in human and automated evaluation metrics, achieving the state-of- the-art on a fluency-oriented GEC corpus.}, url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/I17-2062} }