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 coaching 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.
- sims.json (636 KB) Words retrieved dictionary at higher level and calculated from word2vec models
- Word2vec slim version (163 MB)
- lm.bin (87 MB) (Not released) Trained language model
- bnc.parse.txt.gz (Not released) Parsed BNC corpus, not using all data
@inproceedings{han-etal-2019-level,
title = "Level-Up: Learning to Improve Proficiency Level of Essays",
author = "Han, Wen-Bin and
Chen, Jhih-Jie and
Yang, Chingyu and
Chang, Jason",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations",
month = jul,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-3033",
pages = "207--212",
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.",
}