A new dataset and method for automatically grading ESOL texts

ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 180-189

  Yannakoudakis, Helen ^a   Briscoe, Ted ^a   Medlock, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ILexIR Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; PREFERENCE LEARNING; PREFERENCE MODELS; UPPER BOUND;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84859098590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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