Correcting Challenging Finnish Learner Texts With Claude, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 Large Language Models

Mathias Creutz


Abstract
This paper studies the correction of challenging authentic Finnish learner texts at beginner level (CEFR A1). Three state-of-the-art large language models are compared, and it is shown that GPT-4 outperforms GPT-3.5, which in turn outperforms Claude v1 on this task. Additionally, ensemble models based on classifiers combining outputs of multiple single models are evaluated. The highest accuracy for an ensemble model is 84.3%, whereas the best single model, which is a GPT-4 model, produces sentences that are fully correct 83.3% of the time. In general, the different models perform on a continuum, where grammatical correctness, fluency and coherence go hand in hand.
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2024.wnut-1.1
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Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text (W-NUT 2024)
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March
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2024
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San Ġiljan, Malta
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Rob van der Goot, JinYeong Bak, Max Müller-Eberstein, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Tim Baldwin
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Mathias Creutz. 2024. Correcting Challenging Finnish Learner Texts With Claude, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text (W-NUT 2024), pages 1–10, San Ġiljan, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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