TEASPN: Framework and Protocol for Integrated Writing Assistance Environments

Masato Hagiwara, Takumi Ito, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Jun Suzuki, Kentaro Inui


Abstract
Language technologies play a key role in assisting people with their writing. Although there has been steady progress in e.g., grammatical error correction (GEC), human writers are yet to benefit from this progress due to the high development cost of integrating with writing software. We propose TEASPN, a protocol and an open-source framework for achieving integrated writing assistance environments. The protocol standardizes the way writing software communicates with servers that implement such technologies, allowing developers and researchers to integrate the latest developments in natural language processing (NLP) with low cost. As a result, users can enjoy the integrated experience in their favorite writing software. The results from experiments with human participants show that users use a wide range of technologies and rate their writing experience favorably, allowing them to write more fluent text.
Anthology ID:
D19-3039
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations
Month:
November
Year:
2019
Address:
Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Sebastian Padó, Ruihong Huang
Venues:
EMNLP | IJCNLP
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SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
229–234
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D19-3039
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-3039
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Cite (ACL):
Masato Hagiwara, Takumi Ito, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Jun Suzuki, and Kentaro Inui. 2019. TEASPN: Framework and Protocol for Integrated Writing Assistance Environments. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations, pages 229–234, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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TEASPN: Framework and Protocol for Integrated Writing Assistance Environments (Hagiwara et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-3039.pdf
Code
 teaspn/teaspn-sdk