Langsmith: An Interactive Academic Text Revision System

TL;DR

Langsmith is an interactive system designed to assist non-native English-speaking researchers in writing academic papers by providing fluent sentence suggestions and encouraging human-computer collaboration.

Contribution

This paper introduces Langsmith, a novel interactive editor that helps non-native researchers improve academic writing in NLP through sentence suggestions and user interaction.

Findings

Helps non-native students write English papers more fluently

Encourages effective human-AI collaboration in writing

Demonstrates positive experimental results with users

Abstract

Despite the current diversity and inclusion initiatives in the academic community, researchers with a non-native command of English still face significant obstacles when writing papers in English. This paper presents the Langsmith editor, which assists inexperienced, non-native researchers to write English papers, especially in the natural language processing (NLP) field. Our system can suggest fluent, academic-style sentences to writers based on their rough, incomplete phrases or sentences. The system also encourages interaction between human writers and the computerized revision system. The experimental results demonstrated that Langsmith helps non-native English-speaker students write papers in English. The system is available at https://emnlp-demo.editor. langsmith.co.jp/.