Langsmith: An Interactive Academic Text Revision System
This addresses the challenge for non-native English-speaking researchers, especially in NLP, by providing an interactive revision tool, though it is incremental as it builds on existing text assistance methods.
The paper tackles the problem of non-native English speakers facing obstacles in writing academic papers by introducing Langsmith, an interactive editor that suggests fluent, academic-style sentences based on rough input, and experimental results show it helps students write English papers.
Despite the current diversity and inclusion initiatives in the academic community, researchers with a non-native command of English still face significant obstacles when writing papers in English. This paper presents the Langsmith editor, which assists inexperienced, non-native researchers to write English papers, especially in the natural language processing (NLP) field. Our system can suggest fluent, academic-style sentences to writers based on their rough, incomplete phrases or sentences. The system also encourages interaction between human writers and the computerized revision system. The experimental results demonstrated that Langsmith helps non-native English-speaker students write papers in English. The system is available at https://emnlp-demo.editor. langsmith.co.jp/.