[PDF] Top 20 Native Language Identification with User Generated Content

... The current state of the art in NLI, according to Malmasi and Dras (2017), utilizes some variant of contemporary machine learning classifier with the following types of features: (i) word, lemma and character n-grams, ... See full document

... address user generated online data: community QA and ...formal language than news articles, and at the same time address a much broader spectrum of topics than product ... See full document

... 2019), consists of 1,554 comments in French, trans- lated from an extension of the French Social Me- dia Bank (Seddah et al., 2012) annotated with the following linguistic information: Part-of-Speech tags, surface ... See full document

... natural language processing tasks, such as gram- matical error correction and machine translation, there al- ready exist detailed error taxonomies, which help in get- ting insights in the strengths and weaknesses ... See full document

... natural language, on social media platforms like ...the content was directly related to ac- tivities that the users were doing in the real world – instead, most instances are more conversational in nature, ... See full document

... tuation marks, etc.), language model features (perplexity, log-probability, etc.), word or phrase alignment features, n-best list features, internal MT system scores (Quirk, 2004; Ueffing and Ney, 2004), and ... See full document

... author’s native lan- guage can be viewed as a type of classification ...the content-based cate- gorization which classifies texts by their topic and requires the most common classification methods based on ... See full document

... We explore the performance of different feature types for NLI in this work. Among the features types we examine, character/word/lemma/stem n- grams have the best individual performance. De- pendency parses are also ... See full document

... A significant finding of this research was the identification of hedonic and utilitarian uses of websites. The factor analysis showed that consumers use UGC because it is enjoyable to read these reviews and ... See full document

... Despite the fact that the approach based on string kernels performed so well, it remains to be further investigated why this is the case and why such a simple approach can compete with far more complex approaches that ... See full document

... of language (non-)standardness from a corpus heav- ily skewed towards standard language, we used a heuristic to roughly estimate the degree of text (non-)standardness, which makes use of the cor- pus ... See full document

... natural language processing (NLP), as well as the lack of a universal emotional ...natural language processing is a difficult problem, there are some classic Chinese emotional dictionary which can be used ... See full document

... the native language of a writer can help investigators in determining the source of anonymous text and the importance of this analysis is often bolstered by the fact that in such scenarios, the only data ... See full document

... for Native Language Identification (NLI), a task that has received much attention in recent ...the native language (L1) of an author based on their second language (L2) ... See full document

... alect identification, as evidenced in the previous sections, but also in numerous text classification tasks, among which are complex word identifica- tion (Malmasi et ... See full document

... The ability to choose the proper words to ex- press oneself increases with the proficiency level. From this perspective, identifying the L1 of au- thors of essays in L2 using emotion words infor- mation should be ... See full document

... Phoneme n-grams Phonemes are representa- tions of sounds in a language. In English, one sound can be represented using many different let- ters (e.g. cat and kick). For mapping orthogra- phy onto phonemes, we used ... See full document

... Vox Civitas [18] was designed to assist journalists in the location of newsworthy stories amongst the vast quantities of social media content available. A dashboard-type design enabled users to play video clips of ... See full document

... watching user-generated sites. Participation involves user-to-user interaction and user-to-content interaction ...ranking content websites. Production involves publishing ... See full document

... and language transfer ...how language is processed in the brain in ways that are not possible by just studying mono- linguals or single L1-L2 pairs, thereby providing us with important insights that ... See full document