Native Language
Reconstructing Native Language Typology from Foreign Language Usage
... the native language similarity struc- tures, and does not require any knowledge about the target languages except from the ESL essays of a sample of their ...
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Maximizing Classification Accuracy in Native Language Identification
... identify native versus nonnative speakers of English on the basis of the lexical and part-of-speech (POS) n- grams found in their ...their native language (L1) ...
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Measuring Feature Diversity in Native Language Identification
... The task of Native Language Identification (NLI) is typically solved with machine learn- ing methods, and systems make use of a wide variety of features. Some preliminary studies have been conducted to ...
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Oracle and Human Baselines for Native Language Identification
... We examine different ensemble methods, in- cluding an oracle, to estimate the upper-limit of classification accuracy for Native Language Identification (NLI). The oracle outperforms state-of-the-art systems ...
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Robust, Lexicalized Native Language Identification
... each native language for English level using the Common European Framework (CEF), showing that while learners in the corpus are generally at least of intermediate proficiency, the percentage of advanced ...
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A Portuguese Native Language Identification Dataset
... for Native Language Identification (NLI), the task of identifying an author’s first language based on their sec- ond language ...Portuguese, native speakers of the following L1s: ...
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Word Etymology as Native Language Interference
... natural language iden- tification ...speaker’s native language, that make their way into language production in a non-native ...tive language seep into the production of English ...
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Predicting Native Language from Gaze
... in language learn- ing concerns the role of a speaker’s first language in second language acqui- ...the native language of English learners can be predicted from their gaze fixations ...
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Exploring Adaptor Grammars for Native Language Identification
... parser-based language model to rank the documents with respect to native ...natural language strings (descriptions of a robot soccer game) and a set of candidate meanings (actions in the robot soccer ...
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Toward automatic improvement of language produced by non native language learners
... Non- native users may be struggling to find fluent, nat- ural sounding idiomatic ...by language learners to sentences that are grammatically correct and sound more authen- tic to native ...
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The Role of Emotions in Native Language Identification
... We test this hypothesis through multi-class clas- sification of the L1 of the authors of essays writ- ten in L2 in different experimental set-ups that take into account proficiency levels and topics of the written ...
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The Story of the Characters, the DNA and the Native Language
... in native language iden- tification the information provided by the presence of an n-gram is more important than the the infor- mation provided by the frequency of occurrence of the respective ...
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(Non)native Language Teachers’ Cognitions: Are They Dichotomous?
... with language learning? Interview Question # 1: The (non)native participants’ views on the characteristics of an effective language teacher did not seem to differ much from each ...in language ...
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The Relationship between the Simultaneous Interpreters’ Speed of Speaking in their Native Language and the Quality of their Simultaneous Interpretation from English into their Native Language
... Along with Gile (2001), “such reflection about interpreting also helps develop more specific ideas, with theories, precise hypotheses, and support from research in other disciplines” (Section 3, para. 6). The results ...
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Native Tongues, Lost and Found: Resources and Empirical Evaluations in Native Language Identification
... of Native Language Identification (NLI), which is the task of automatically identifying a speaker’s first language based solely on the speaker’s writing in another ...applications. Native ...
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Exploring Optimal Voting in Native Language Identification
... We describe the submissions entered by the National Research Council Canada in the Native Language Identification Shared Task 2017. We mainly explored the use of voting, and various ways to optimize the ...
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Feature Extraction for Native Language Identification Using Language Modeling
... of Native Language Identification ...the native language of authors of English texts written by non-native English speak- ...the language modeling approach and employs cross- ...
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CIC FBK Approach to Native Language Identification
... We present the CIC-FBK system, which took part in the Native Language Iden- tification (NLI) Shared Task 2017. Our approach combines features commonly used in previous NLI research, i.e., word n-grams, ...
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Native Language OLAP Query Execution
... NOX queries are easily extendable due to the fact that inheritance is well-supported in NOX, as will be illustrated in this section. One of the reasons that we represent algebraic operations in separate methods is simply ...
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Native Language Identification using Phonetic Algorithms
... Native Language Identification (NLI) is the task of automatically predicting the native language (L1) of a speaker given an unlabeled artifact such as a writing sample or speech transcript in ...
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