Assisted Nominalization for Academic English Writing
John Lee, Dariush Saberi, Marvin Lam, Jonathan James Webster · 2018
Nominalization is a common linguistic feature in academic writing.By expressing actions or events (verbs) as concepts or things (nouns), nominalization produces more abstract and formal text, and conveys a more objective tone.We report our progress in developing a system that offers automatic assistance for nominalization.Given an input sentence with a complex clause, it paraphrases the sentence into a simplex clause by transforming verb phrases into noun phrases.Preliminary evaluations suggest that system performance achieved high recall.