GECTurk WEB: An Explainable Online Platform for Turkish Grammatical Error Detection and Correction
Gebeşçe A, Şahin GG (2025)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages Range: 163-173
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING
Event location: Abu Dhabi, ARE
ISBN: 9798891761988
Abstract
Sophisticated grammatical error detection/correction tools are available for a small set of languages such as English and Chinese. However, it is not straightforward—if not impossible—to adapt them to morphologically rich languages with complex writing rules like Turkish which has more than 80 million speakers. Even though several tools exist for Turkish, they primarily focus on spelling errors rather than grammatical errors and lack features such as web interfaces, error explanations and feedback mechanisms. To fill this gap, we introduce GECTURK WEB, a light, open-source, and flexible web-based system that can detect and correct the most common forms of Turkish writing errors, such as the misuse of diacritics, compound and foreign words, pronouns, light verbs along with spelling mistakes. Our system provides native speakers and second language learners an easily accessible tool to detect/correct such mistakes and also to learn from their mistakes by showing the explanation for the violated rule(s). The proposed system achieves 88,3 system usability score, and is shown to help learn/remember a grammatical rule (confirmed by 80% of the participants). The GECTURK WEB is available both as an offline tool 1 or at www.gecturk.net.
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APA:
Gebeşçe, A., & Şahin, G.G. (2025). GECTurk WEB: An Explainable Online Platform for Turkish Grammatical Error Detection and Correction. In Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert, Brodie Mather, Mark Dras (Eds.), Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING (pp. 163-173). Abu Dhabi, ARE: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
MLA:
Gebeşçe, Ali, and Gözde Gül Şahin. "GECTurk WEB: An Explainable Online Platform for Turkish Grammatical Error Detection and Correction." Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi, ARE Ed. Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert, Brodie Mather, Mark Dras, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025. 163-173.
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