Assisted Nominalization for Academic English Writing

John Lee; Dariush Saberi; Marvin Lam; Jonathan Webster

doi:10.18653/v1/w18-6706

Assisted Nominalization for Academic English Writing

John Lee, Dariush Saberi, Marvin Lam, Jonathan Webster

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Interactive Systems and Language Generation (2IS&NLG)
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	26-30
ISBN (Electronic)	9781948087889
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w18-6706
Publication status	Published - Nov 2018
Event	Workshop on Intelligent Interactive Systems and Language Generation (2IS&NLG) - Tilburg, Netherlands Duration: 5 Nov 2018 → 8 Nov 2018 https://sites.google.com/view/2is-nlg2018/home

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Conference	Workshop on Intelligent Interactive Systems and Language Generation (2IS&NLG)
Place	Netherlands
City	Tilburg
Period	5/11/18 → 8/11/18
Internet address	https://sites.google.com/view/2is-nlg2018/home

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Lee, J , Saberi, D, Lam, M & Webster, J 2018, Assisted Nominalization for Academic English Writing. in Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Interactive Systems and Language Generation (2IS&NLG). Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 26-30, Workshop on Intelligent Interactive Systems and Language Generation (2IS&NLG), Tilburg, Netherlands, 5/11/18. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w18-6706

Assisted Nominalization for Academic English Writing. / Lee, John ; Saberi, Dariush; Lam, Marvin et al.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Interactive Systems and Language Generation (2IS&NLG). Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. p. 26-30.

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