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Language technologies for enhancement of teaching and learning in writing

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WWW '14 Companion: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web

Pages 1097 - 1102

https://doi.org/10.1145/2567948.2580058

Published: 07 April 2014 Publication History

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Writing is a vital issue for education as well as a fundamental skill in teaching and learning. With the development of information technologies, more and more professional writing tools emerge. As each of them mostly concentrates on addressing a specific issue, people need a one-stop platform, which could integrate multiply functions. In addition, with the supported concept of e-learning ecosystem for future education, a comprehensive platform will be more promising. Therefore, we introduce VeriGuide Platform, which provides a professional writing toolbox to promote the enhancement of teaching and learning in writing. It contains six vertical components, which could be split into two groups. The first group, Editing Assistance, facilitates students write papers and point out grammar and spelling errors. While the second group, Text Analysis, offers document analysis results, which enables students to achieve further writing improvement with explanatory feedbacks. Furthermore, we could do education data analytics to enhance the efficiency of teaching and learning. Specifically, the Editing Assistance contains well-organized writing and formatting, and grammar and spelling checking, while readability assessment, similarity detection, citation analysis, and sentiment analysis are included in the Text Analysis.

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WWW '14 Companion: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web

April 2014

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ISBN:9781450327459

DOI:10.1145/2567948

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Chin-Wan Chung
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
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Google Inc., USA
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Kyuseok Shim
Seoul National University, Korea
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New York University, USA

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Gentile MCittà GPerna SAllegra M(2023)Do we still need teachers? Navigating the paradigm shift of the teacher's role in the AI eraFrontiers in Education10.3389/feduc.2023.11617778Online publication date: 31-Mar-2023
https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1161777
Blanchard JHott JBerry VCarroll REdmison BGlassey RKarnalim OPlancher BRussell SQuille KAlshaigy BBecker BQuille KLaakso M(2022)Stop Reinventing the Wheel! Promoting Community Software in Computing EducationProceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/3571785.3574129(261-292)Online publication date: 27-Dec-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3571785.3574129
Man YWang SZhang TWong TKing I(2014)Corporate Leaders Analytics and Network System (CLANS): Constructing and Mining Social Networks among Corporations and Business Elites in ChinaNeural Information Processing10.1007/978-3-319-12637-1_76(610-618)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12637-1_76

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