@techreport{oai:ipsj.ixsq.nii.ac.jp:00198865, author = {Masato, Mita and Masato, Hagiwara and Keisuke, Sakaguchi and Tomoya, Mizumoto and Jun, Suzuki and Kentaro, Inui and Masato, Mita and Masato, Hagiwara and Keisuke, Sakaguchi and Tomoya, Mizumoto and Jun, Suzuki and Kentaro, Inui}, issue = {24}, month = {Aug}, note = {We propose the Automated Essay Rewriting (AER) task, where computer systems make automatic edits to argumentative essays to improve their quality. AER subsumes types of edits beyond single sentences such as coherence, cohesion, and style, which are not within the scope of traditional tasks such as grammatical error correction (GEC) and fluency edits. The quantitative and qualitative analyses of a corpus specifically designed for AER reveal that these edits account for almost half of edits made by professional proofreaders. We also discuss the challenges, issues, and future direction of AER by comparing with other tasks., We propose the Automated Essay Rewriting (AER) task, where computer systems make automatic edits to argumentative essays to improve their quality. AER subsumes types of edits beyond single sentences such as coherence, cohesion, and style, which are not within the scope of traditional tasks such as grammatical error correction (GEC) and fluency edits. The quantitative and qualitative analyses of a corpus specifically designed for AER reveal that these edits account for almost half of edits made by professional proofreaders. We also discuss the challenges, issues, and future direction of AER by comparing with other tasks.}, title = {Automated Essay Rewriting (AER): Grammatical Error Correction, Fluency Edits, and Beyond}, year = {2019} }