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In a 2023 evaluation of ChatGPT as a grammar corrector, its very fluent corrections were possibly due to over-correction and not following the principle of minimal edits.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“possibly due to its over-correction tendencies and not adhering to the principle of minimal edits”
Is ChatGPT a Highly Fluent Grammatical Error Correction System? A Comprehensive Evaluation, Tao Fang et al., arXiv, 2023, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The authors judged corrections on English benchmarks with human evaluation, and found ChatGPT strong at detecting errors.
- What it does not show
- A GPT-3.5 era model on sentence-level English text. The point about minimal edits is the one that carries over to cleanup.