Alignment-based Annotation of Proofreading Texts toward Professional Writing Assistance
Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen, Yusuke Miyao · International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing · 2013
This work aims at constructing a corpus to satisfy such requirements to support research towards professional writing assistance. Our corpus is a collection of scientific work written by non-native speakers that has been proofread by native English experts. A new annotation scheme, which is based on word-alignments, is then proposed that is used to capture all types of inarticulations and their corrections including both spelling/grammatical error corrections and paraphrases made by proofreaders. The resulting corpus contains 3,485 pairs of original and revised sentences, of which, 2,516 pairs contain at least one articulation.