Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners, Second Edition / by Claudia Leacock, Michael Gamon, Joel Alejandro Mejia, Martin Chodorow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leacock, Claudia, Author.

Gamon, Michael, Author.

Mejia, Joel Alejandro., Author.

Chodorow, Martin, Author.

Series:

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, 1947-4059

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Natural language processing (Computer science).

Computational linguistics.

Artificial Intelligence.

Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Computational Linguistics.

Local Subjects:

Artificial Intelligence.

Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Computational Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XV, 154 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.

Summary:

It has been estimated that over a billion people are using or learning English as a second or foreign language, and the numbers are growing not only for English but for other languages as well. These language learners provide a burgeoning market for tools that help identify and correct learners' writing errors. Unfortunately, the errors targeted by typical commercial proofreading tools do not include those aspects of a second language that are hardest to learn. This volume describes the types of constructions English language learners find most difficult: constructions containing prepositions, articles, and collocations. It provides an overview of the automated approaches that have been developed to identify and correct these and other classes of learner errors in a number of languages. Error annotation and system evaluation are particularly important topics in grammatical error detection because there are no commonly accepted standards. Chapters in the book describe the options available to researchers, recommend best practices for reporting results, and present annotation and evaluation schemes. The final chapters explore recent innovative work that opens new directions for research. It is the authors' hope that this volume will continue to contribute to the growing interest in grammatical error detection by encouraging researchers to take a closer look at the field and its many challenging problems.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Background

Special Problems of Language Learners

Evaluating Error Detection Systems

Data-Driven Approaches to Articles and Prepositions

Collocation Errors

Different Errors and Different Approaches

Annotating Learner Errors

Emerging Directions

Conclusion

Bibliography

Authors' Biographies .

ISBN:

9783031021534

3031021533