Toward the Development of a Web-based Support System for English Composition

Abstract

This paper describes the development of an intelligent corpus system for English composition support. When a non-English speaker composing an English sentence uses a web search engine in order to refer to good English sentence samples, finding appropriate English sentences out of numerous search results that include low-quality sentences is a troublesome task. The corpus system proposed in this paper infers the quality of each English document in a similar manner that humans do, and it provides the information of the quality to corpus users. This enables users to find good English sentence samples with less time and effort.