A Simple yet Effective Training-free Prompt-free Approach to Chinese Spelling Correction Based on Large Language Models

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Autori principali: Zhou, Houquan, Li, Zhenghua, Zhang, Bo, Li, Chen, Lai, Shaopeng, Zhang, Ji, Huang, Fei, Zhang, Min
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author Zhou, Houquan
Li, Zhenghua
Zhang, Bo
Li, Chen
Lai, Shaopeng
Zhang, Ji
Huang, Fei
Zhang, Min
author_facet Zhou, Houquan
Li, Zhenghua
Zhang, Bo
Li, Chen
Lai, Shaopeng
Zhang, Ji
Huang, Fei
Zhang, Min
contents This work proposes a simple training-free prompt-free approach to leverage large language models (LLMs) for the Chinese spelling correction (CSC) task, which is totally different from all previous CSC approaches. The key idea is to use an LLM as a pure language model in a conventional manner. The LLM goes through the input sentence from the beginning, and at each inference step, produces a distribution over its vocabulary for deciding the next token, given a partial sentence. To ensure that the output sentence remains faithful to the input sentence, we design a minimal distortion model that utilizes pronunciation or shape similarities between the original and replaced characters. Furthermore, we propose two useful reward strategies to address practical challenges specific to the CSC task. Experiments on five public datasets demonstrate that our approach significantly improves LLM performance, enabling them to compete with state-of-the-art domain-general CSC models.
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spellingShingle A Simple yet Effective Training-free Prompt-free Approach to Chinese Spelling Correction Based on Large Language Models
Zhou, Houquan
Li, Zhenghua
Zhang, Bo
Li, Chen
Lai, Shaopeng
Zhang, Ji
Huang, Fei
Zhang, Min
Computation and Language
This work proposes a simple training-free prompt-free approach to leverage large language models (LLMs) for the Chinese spelling correction (CSC) task, which is totally different from all previous CSC approaches. The key idea is to use an LLM as a pure language model in a conventional manner. The LLM goes through the input sentence from the beginning, and at each inference step, produces a distribution over its vocabulary for deciding the next token, given a partial sentence. To ensure that the output sentence remains faithful to the input sentence, we design a minimal distortion model that utilizes pronunciation or shape similarities between the original and replaced characters. Furthermore, we propose two useful reward strategies to address practical challenges specific to the CSC task. Experiments on five public datasets demonstrate that our approach significantly improves LLM performance, enabling them to compete with state-of-the-art domain-general CSC models.
title A Simple yet Effective Training-free Prompt-free Approach to Chinese Spelling Correction Based on Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04027