I am a student and English is kind of my secondary language. While writing my research thesis I find it quite difficult to use the right words at the right place. I have a lot of research papers in my collection. I am only imagining that if I give a tool those research papers, some technical articles found on web and some other well written stuff. A tool like that will help me choosing the right words and sentences in my thesis.
There is http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ which highlights long sentences, suggest simpler words etc.
Another is http://writefullapp.com/ which looks almost perfect for technical writing and does almost the same thing as I am looking for. But it is not free and it looks on internet for similar sentences to suggest the right sentence.
-lifeh2o
Well, recognizing that since you haven't said what subject your thesis is on, I could get wildly out of my depth, but try this -
I'm fairly strong on the linguistic - liberal arts front, so toss me a draft of something by email and I'll throw you "the intelligent layman's questions". Then I can work with you to show you some types of questions a person can ask that can never be fixed just by the types of tools you are looking for.
I'm at [email protected]
I have some passing layman's interests in AI, so this would be a fun project! (And these days trying to get my health better, I need a couple of fun things to rebuild my concentration on!)
(P.s. Holler when you've sent something, because I am doing a few hobbies today and need to know when to look. I don't have those "you've got mail" auto-links to email like a lot of people have, for various reasons.)
-TaoPhoenix
My thesis is about Multi-Agents and Scientific Workflow Systems. Thank you very much for sharing email to help. But you have probably took that too far of what I am asking by saying "some types of questions a person can ask that can never be fixed just by the types of tools you are looking for". No I am not looking for a tool which will write for me, I only need it to suggest me better words or phrases if possible.
I made a simple word generator once, than converted it to a simple sentence generator which used markov chains. That sentence generator, I found later, worked almost the same way as spam email and spam fake article generators work. They make sentence which look like a real readable sentences but in fact are stupidly connected long sentences. But they do the job of fooling search engines very well.
I am expecting the samething from a word prediction tool, give it some sample text, start typing, looking at what you have typed it should suggest next words which it learnt from sample text (research papers and other technical writings in my case)