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The Sentence Fairy: A Natural-Language Generation System to Support Children's Essay Writing
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Harbusch, Karin; Itsova, Gergana; Koch, Ulrich; Kuhner, Christine – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
We built an NLP system implementing a "virtual writing conference" for elementary-school children, with German as the target language. Currently, state-of-the-art computer support for writing tasks is restricted to multiple-choice questions or quizzes because automatic parsing of the often ambiguous and fragmentary texts produced by pupils…
Descriptors: Essays, Tests, Writing Instruction, Natural Language Processing