Demonstrating PAR4SEM-A SemanticWriting Aid with Adaptive Paraphrasing

In this paper, we present PAR4SEM, a semantic writing aid tool based on adaptive paraphrasing. Unlike many annotation tools that are primarily used to collect training examples, PAR4SEM is integrated into a real word application, in this case a writing aid tool, in order to collect training examples from usage data. PAR4SEM is a tool, which supports an adaptive, iterative, and interactive process where the underlying machine learning models are updated for each iteration using new training examples from usage data. After motivating the use of ever-learning tools in NLP applications, we evaluate PAR4SEM by adopting it to a text simplification task through mere usage.