A fast growing area in Natural Language Processing is the use of automated tools for identifying and correcting grammatical errors made by language learners. This growth, in part, has been fueled by the needs of a large number of people in the world who are learning and using a second or foreign language. For example, it is estimated that there are currently over one billion people who are non-native writers of English. These numbers drive the demand for accurate tools that can help learners to write and speak proficiently in another language. Such demand also makes this an exciting time for those in the NLP community who are developing automated methods for grammatical error correction (GEC). Our motivation for the COLING tutorial is to make others more aware of this field and its particular set of challenges. For these reasons, we believe that the tutorial will potentially benefit a broad range of conference attendees.
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