Alignment classification for professional writing assistance

Proofreading, the act of checking first-draft writings performed by native experts, is essential for professional writing by non-native speakers. How to automatically proofread could be an interesting topic of NLP, but have not yet been well-explored. Our research carried out the first step toward automatic proof-reading by automatically analyzing the correspondences between original and proofreading texts. We propose a new task of word alignment in the context of writing assistance application, called word alignment for writing assistance. This paper presents the task formulation and compares different methods in solving the task. Our experimental results show that the best method achieved 71.8% in accuracy.