BibTeX
@InProceedings{mahlow2008a,
author = {Mahlow, Cerstin and Piotrowski, Michael},
title = {{Linguistic Support for Revising and Editing}},
booktitle = {Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 9th International
Conference, CICLing 2008, Haifa, Israel, February 17-23, 2008. Proceedings},
year = {2008},
editor = {Gelbukh, Alexander},
volume = {4919},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
pages = {631-642},
address = {Berlin, Heidelberg, New York},
publisher = {Springer},
abstract = {{Revising and editing are important parts of the writing process.
In fact, multiple revision and editing cycles are crucial for the
production of high-quality texts. However, revising and editing are
also tedious and error-prone, since changes may introduce new errors.
Grammar checkers, as offered by some word processors, are not a solution.
Besides the fact that they are only available for few languages,
and regardless of the questionable quality, their conceptual approach
is not suitable for experienced writers, who actively create their
texts. Word processors offer few, if any, functions for handling
text on the same cognitive level as the author: While the author
is thinking in high-level linguistic terms, editors and word processors
mostly provide low-level character oriented functions. Mapping the
intended outcome to these low-level operations is distracting for
the author, who now has to focus for a long time on small parts of
the text. This results in a loss of global overview of the text and
in typical revision errors (duplicate verbs, extraneous conjunctions,
etc.) We therefore propose functions for text processors that work
on the conceptual level of writers. These functions operate on linguistic
elements, not on lines and characters. We describe how these functions
can be implemented by making use of NLP methods and linguistic resources.}},
citeulike-article-id = {2361942},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_54},
journal = {Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing},
keywords = {editing, lingured, revising, word-processing, writing},
posted-at = {2008-02-11 08:52:31},
priority = {0},
url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_54}
}