Computational assessment of lexical differences in L1 and L2 writing

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-135

  Crossley, Scott A ^a   McNamara, Danielle S ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Computational linguistics; Corpus linguistics; Lexical networks; Lexical proficiency; Second language writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349241371     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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