tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "PENS: A Machine-aided English Writing System for Chinese Users"

Writing English is a big barrier for most Chinese users. To build a computer-aided system that helps Chinese users not only on spelling checking and grammar checking but also on writing in the way of native-English is a challenging task. Although machine translation is widely used for this purpose, how to find an efficient way in which human collaborates with computers remains an open issue. In this paper, based on the comprehensive study of Chinese users requirements, we propose an approach to machine aided English writing system, which consists of two components: 1) a statistical approach to word spelling. | PENS A Machine-aided English Writing System for Chinese Users Ting Liu1 Ming Zhou Jianfeng Gao Endong Xun Changning Huang Natural Language Computing Group Microsoft Research China Microsoft Corporation 5F Beijing Sigma Center 100080 Beijing . i-liutin mingzhou jfgao i-edxun cnhuang@ Abstract Writing English is a big barrier for most Chinese users. To build a computer-aided system that helps Chinese users not only on spelling checking and grammar checking but also on writing in the way of native-English is a challenging task. Although machine translation is widely used for this purpose how to find an efficient way in which human collaborates with computers remains an open issue. In this paper based on the comprehensive study of Chinese users requirements we propose an approach to machine aided English writing system which consists of two components 1 a statistical approach to word spelling help and 2 an information retrieval based approach to intelligent recommendation by providing suggestive example sentences. Both components work together in a unified way and highly improve the productivity of English writing. We also developed a pilot system namely PENS Perfect ENglish System . Preliminary experiments show very promising results. Introduction With the rapid development of the Internet writing English becomes daily work for computer users all over the world. However for Chinese users who have significantly different culture and writing style English writing is a big barrier. Therefore building a machine-aided English writing system which helps Chinese users not only on spelling checking and grammar checking but also on writing in the way of native-English is a very promising task. Statistics shows that almost all Chinese users who need to write in English1 have enough knowledge of English that they can easily tell the difference between two sentences written in Chinese-English and native-English respectively. Thus the machine-aided English .