Supporting Spanish Writers using Automated Feedback

Aoife Cahill, James Bruno, James Ramey, Gilmar Ayala Meneses, Ian Blood, Florencia Tolentino, Tamar Lavee, Slava Andreyev


Abstract
We present a tool that provides automated feedback to students studying Spanish writing. The feedback is given for four categories: topic development, coherence, writing conventions, and essay organization. The tool is made freely available via a Google Docs add-on. A small user study with third-level students in Mexico shows that students found the tool generally helpful and that most of them plan to continue using it as they work to improve their writing skills.
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2021.naacl-demos.14
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Demonstrations
Month:
June
Year:
2021
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Online
Editors:
Avi Sil, Xi Victoria Lin
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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116–124
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-demos.14
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-demos.14
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Aoife Cahill, James Bruno, James Ramey, Gilmar Ayala Meneses, Ian Blood, Florencia Tolentino, Tamar Lavee, and Slava Andreyev. 2021. Supporting Spanish Writers using Automated Feedback. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Demonstrations, pages 116–124, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Supporting Spanish Writers using Automated Feedback (Cahill et al., NAACL 2021)
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