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tags:
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- llama
- spellcheck
- grammar
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# Karen is a grammar and spell check editor for your text. (v.2)

Ah, Karen, a true peach among grammatical cucumbers! She yearns to rectify the missteps and linguistic tangles that infest your horribly written fiction.
Yet, unlike those ChatGPT kaboodles that morph into self-absorbed, constipated gurus of self-help style, Karen remains steadfastly grounded in grammatical wisdom but respectfull of your style.

# Info
Karen, Version 2, uses a completely different data set and base model than the previous Karen.

# Goals
Karen's goal is to fix grammatical and spelling errors with as light a change to the style as possible. It's tuned to catch most typical ESL errors. 

    Verb Tense Errors:
        Incorrect use of verb tenses, such as using present tense when past tense is required and vice versa.
        Confusion between continuous and simple tenses.

    Subject-Verb Agreement:
        Lack of agreement between the subject and verb in number, e.g., using a singular verb with a plural subject or vice versa.

    Articles (a, an, the):
        Incorrect use or omission of articles, such as using "a" instead of "an" or vice versa.
        Overuse or omission of the definite article "the."

    Prepositions:
        Misuse of prepositions, such as using "in" instead of "on" or "at," or omitting prepositions where they are needed.

    Word Order:
        Incorrect word order in sentences, especially in questions and negative sentences.
        Misplacement of adverbs or adjectives.

    Pluralization:
        Incorrect plural forms of nouns, such as failing to add "-s" or "-es" when necessary.

    Pronoun Errors:
        Confusion between subject and object pronouns.
        Incorrect use of possessive pronouns.

    Double Negatives:
        Using double negatives, which is grammatically incorrect in standard English.

    Modal Verbs:
        Misuse of modal verbs like can, could, will, would, should, etc.

    Confusing Similar Words:
        Confusing words that sound similar but have different meanings and spellings (e.g., "their," "there," and "they're").

    Lack of Plural/Singular Agreement:
        Mistakes in matching singular and plural nouns and verbs in a sentence.

# Future Goals
Add more grammar error cases. Better datasets. Use larger datasets.

# Training
It was reversely trained on fictional passages where errors were intentionally inserted by another Llama model and Python script.

# Usage
It should be used by submitting a paragraph or block of text at a time.

# Model uses ChatML

```
<|im_start|>system
<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Edit the following text for spelling and grammar mistakes: {paragraph of text} <|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
```
Note the pretext: *Edit the following text for spelling and grammar mistakes:* before the actual text. This way Karen wouldn't start talking ABOUT the text.

# Recomended settings

-Temperature: 0.7
-top_p: 0.1
-top_k: 40
-repetition penalty: 1.18

Karen could also be employed in the instruction/chat, but the minute you ran a longer sentence she would assume you were proofreading.

Example:

>Edit the following text for spelling and grammar mistakes: Each of candidates’ names were written on pieces of paper folded in half and placed in the appropriate box.

Output:

>Each candidate's name was written on a piece of paper, folded in half, and placed in an appropriate box.