“This paper provides a comprehensive review of the CCL23-Eval Task 8, i.e., Chinese EssayFluency Evaluation (CEFE). The primary aim of this task is to systematically identify the typesof grammatical fine-grained errors that affect the readability and coherence of essays writtenby Chinese primary and secondary school students, and then to suggest suitable corrections toenhance the fluidity of their written expression. This task consists of three distinct tracks: (1)Coarse-grained and fine-grained error identification; (2) Character-level error identification andcorrection; (3) Error sentence rewriting. In the end, we received 44 completed registration forms,leading to a total of 130 submissions from 11 dedicated participating teams. We present theresults of all participants and our analysis of these results. Both the dataset and evaluation toolused in this task are available1.”

Detection and correction of Chinese grammatical errors have been two of major challenges for Chinese automatic grammatical error diagnosis.This paper presents an N-gram model for automatic detection and correction of Chinese grammatical errors in NLPTEA 2017 task. The experiment results show that the proposed method is good at correction of Chinese grammatical errors.