Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a novel task called feedback comment generation — a task of automatically generating feedback comments such as a hint or an explanatory note for writing learning for non-native learners of English. There has been almost no work on this task nor corpus annotated with feedback comments. We have taken the first step by creating learner corpora consisting of approximately 1,900 essays where all preposition errors are manually annotated with feedback comments. We have tested three baseline methods on the dataset, showing that a simple neural retrieval-based method sets a baseline performance with an F-measure of 0.34 to 0.41. Finally, we have looked into the results to explore what modifications we need to make to achieve better performance. We also have explored problems unaddressed in this work- Anthology ID:
- D19-1316
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Hong Kong, China
- Venues:
- EMNLP | IJCNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3206–3215
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D19-1316
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D19-1316
- Cite (ACL):
- Ryo Nagata. 2019. Toward a Task of Feedback Comment Generation for Writing Learning. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 3206–3215, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Toward a Task of Feedback Comment Generation for Writing Learning (Nagata, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/D19-1316.pdf