COLING 2020main4 citations
Automatic Assistance for Academic Word Usage
Dariush Saberi, John Lee, Jonathan James Webster
Abstract
This paper describes a writing assistance system that helps students improve their academic writing. Given an input text, the system suggests lexical substitutions that aim to incorporate more academic vocabulary. The substitution candidates are drawn from an academic word list and ranked by a masked language model. Experimental results show that lexical formality analysis can improve the quality of the suggestions, in comparison to a baseline that relies on the masked language model only.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{saberi-etal-2020-automatic,
title = "Automatic Assistance for Academic Word Usage",
author = "Saberi, Dariush and
Lee, John and
James Webster, Jonathan",
editor = "Scott, Donia and
Bel, Nuria and
Zong, Chengqing",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = dec,
year = "2020",
address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.196/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.196",
pages = "2163--2168"
}