Level-Up: Learning to Improve Proficiency Level of Essays

Wen-Bin Han, Jhih-Jie Chen, Chingyu Yang, Jason Chang


Abstract
We introduce a method for generating suggestions on a given sentence for improving the proficiency level. In our approach, the sentence is transformed into a sequence of grammatical elements aimed at providing suggestions of more advanced grammar elements based on originals. The method involves parsing the sentence, identifying grammatical elements, and ranking related elements to recommend a higher level of grammatical element. We present a prototype tutoring system, Level-Up, that applies the method to English learners’ essays in order to assist them in writing and reading. Evaluation on a set of essays shows that our method does assist user in writing.
Anthology ID:
P19-3033
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
Month:
July
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Marta R. Costa-jussà, Enrique Alfonseca
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
207–212
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-3033
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-3033
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Wen-Bin Han, Jhih-Jie Chen, Chingyu Yang, and Jason Chang. 2019. Level-Up: Learning to Improve Proficiency Level of Essays. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 207–212, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Level-Up: Learning to Improve Proficiency Level of Essays (Han et al., ACL 2019)
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