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| 1 | +A Case-Based Approach for Developing Writing Tools |
| 2 | +Aimed at Non-native English Users |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +Sandra M. Alu�sio1 and Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr.2 |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +1 Universidade de S�o Paulo |
| 8 | +Departamento de Ci�ncias de Computa��o e Estat�stica |
| 9 | +CP 668, 13560-970, S�o Carlos, SP, BRAZIL |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +2 Universidade de S�o Paulo |
| 12 | +Instituto de F�sica de S�o Carlos |
| 13 | +CP 369, 13560-970 S�o Carlos, SP, BRAZIL |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +Abstract |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | + A writing tool has been developed for helping non-native English users to produce |
| 21 | +a first draft of Introductory Sections of scientific papers. A corpus analysis was carried |
| 22 | +out in 54 papers of Experimental Physics which allowed one to identify the schematic |
| 23 | +structure of Introductions and 30 rhetorical strategies generally employed. Each one of |
| 24 | +the Introductions analysed constituted a case. The user chooses from menus features |
| 25 | +related to the rhetorical strategies for each component and gives the intended order for |
| 26 | +his/her Introduction, thus forming the requisition. Using three types of metric, the tool |
| 27 | +recovers the best-match cases that can be later modified in a revision process. |
| 28 | +Preliminary experiments showed that high precision and recall will only be obtained if |
| 29 | +the number of cases in the case base is considerably increased. In the revision process, |
| 30 | +four operations are suggested which consist in modifying/adding/deleting the different |
| 31 | +rhetorical messages that constitute the strategies of the chosen case. |
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