languages:
- en
license:
- cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
- apache-2.0
tags:
- grammar
- spelling
- punctuation
- error-correction
- grammar synthesis
- FLAN
datasets:
- jfleg
widget:
- text: There car broke down so their hitching a ride to they're class.
example_title: compound-1
- text: i can has cheezburger
example_title: cheezburger
- text: >-
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given the ereafte mylite trend we can also em an estimate is nod s i again
tort watfettering an we have estimated the trend an called wot to be
called sthat of exty right now we can and look at wy this should not hare
a trend i becan we just remove the trend an and we can we now estimate
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example_title: Transcribed Audio Example 2
- text: >-
My coworker said he used a financial planner to help choose his stocks so
he wouldn't loose money.
example_title: incorrect word choice (context)
- text: >-
good so hve on an tadley i'm not able to make it to the exla session on
monday this week e which is why i am e recording pre recording an this
excelleision and so to day i want e to talk about two things and first of
all em i wont em wene give a summary er about ta ohow to remove trents in
these nalitives from time series
example_title: lowercased audio transcription output
- text: Frustrated, the chairs took me forever to set up.
example_title: dangling modifier
- text: I would like a peice of pie.
example_title: miss-spelling
- text: >-
Which part of Zurich was you going to go hiking in when we were there for
the first time together? ! ?
example_title: chatbot on Zurich
- text: >-
Most of the course is about semantic or content of language but there are
also interesting topics to be learned from the servicefeatures except
statistics in characters in documents. At this point, Elvthos introduces
himself as his native English speaker and goes on to say that if you
continue to work on social scnce,
example_title: social science ASR summary output
- text: >-
they are somewhat nearby right yes please i'm not sure how the innish is
tepen thut mayyouselect one that istatte lo variants in their property e
ere interested and anyone basical e may be applyind reaching the browing
approach were
example_title: medical course audio transcription
parameters:
max_length: 128
min_length: 4
num_beams: 8
repetition_penalty: 1.21
length_penalty: 1
early_stopping: true
grammar-synthesis-large: FLAN-t5
A fine-tuned version of google/flan-t5-large for grammar correction on an expanded version of the JFLEG dataset. Demo on HF spaces.
Example
Compare vs. the original grammar-synthesis-large.
usage in Python
There's a colab notebook that already has this basic version implemented (click on the Open in Colab button)
After pip install transformers run the following code:
from transformers import pipeline
corrector = pipeline(
'text2text-generation',
'pszemraj/flan-t5-large-grammar-synthesis',
)
raw_text = 'i can has cheezburger'
results = corrector(raw_text)
print(results)
For Batch Inference: see this discussion thread for details, but essentially the dataset consists of several sentences at a time, and so I'd recommend running inference in the same fashion: batches of 64-96 tokens ish (or, 2-3 sentences split with regex)
- it is also helpful to first check whether or not a given sentence needs grammar correction before using the text2text model. You can do this with BERT-type models fine-tuned on CoLA like
textattack/roberta-base-CoLA - I made a notebook demonstrating batch inference here
Model description
The intent is to create a text2text language model that successfully completes "single-shot grammar correction" on a potentially grammatically incorrect text that could have a lot of mistakes with the important qualifier of it does not semantically change text/information that IS grammatically correct.
Compare some of the heavier-error examples on other grammar correction models to see the difference :)
ONNX Checkpoint
This model has been converted to ONNX and can be loaded/used with huggingface's optimum library.
You first need to install optimum
pip install optimum[onnxruntime]
# ^ if you want to use a different runtime read their docs
load with the optimum pipeline
from optimum.pipelines import pipeline
corrector = pipeline(
"text2text-generation", model=corrector_model_name, accelerator="ort"
)
# use as normal
Other checkpoints
If trading a slight decrease in grammatical correction quality for faster inference speed makes sense for your use case, check out the base and small checkpoints fine-tuned from the relevant t5 checkpoints.
Limitations
- dataset:
cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 - model:
apache-2.0 - this is still a work-in-progress and while probably useful for "single-shot grammar correction" in a lot of cases, give the outputs a glance for correctness ok?
Use Cases
Obviously, this section is quite general as there are many things one can use "general single-shot grammar correction" for. Some ideas or use cases:
- Correcting highly error-prone LM outputs. Some examples would be audio transcription (ASR) (this is literally some of the examples) or something like handwriting OCR.
- To be investigated further, depending on what model/system is used it might be worth it to apply this after OCR on typed characters.
- Correcting/infilling text generated by text generation models to be cohesive/remove obvious errors that break the conversation immersion. I use this on the outputs of this OPT 2.7B chatbot-esque model of myself.
An example of this model running on CPU with beam search:
Original response:
ive heard it attributed to a bunch of different philosophical schools, including stoicism, pragmatism, existentialism and even some forms of post-structuralism. i think one of the most interesting (and most difficult) philosophical problems is trying to let dogs (or other animals) out of cages. the reason why this is a difficult problem is because it seems to go against our grain (so to
synthesizing took 306.12 seconds
Final response in 1294.857 s:
I've heard it attributed to a bunch of different philosophical schools, including solipsism, pragmatism, existentialism and even some forms of post-structuralism. i think one of the most interesting (and most difficult) philosophical problems is trying to let dogs (or other animals) out of cages. the reason why this is a difficult problem is because it seems to go against our grain (so to speak)
Note: that I have some other logic that removes any periods at the end of the final sentence in this chatbot setting to avoid coming off as passive aggressive
- Somewhat related to #2 above, fixing/correcting so-called tortured-phrases that are dead giveaways text was generated by a language model. Note that SOME of these are not fixed, especially as they venture into domain-specific terminology (i.e. irregular timberland instead of Random Forest).
Citation info
If you find this fine-tuned model useful in your work, please consider citing it :)
@misc {peter_szemraj_2022,
author = { {Peter Szemraj} },
title = { flan-t5-large-grammar-synthesis (Revision d0b5ae2) },
year = 2022,
url = { https://huggingface.co./pszemraj/flan-t5-large-grammar-synthesis },
doi = { 10.57967/hf/0138 },
publisher = { Hugging Face }
}