Native tongues, lost and found: Resources and empirical evaluations in native language identification

24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2585-2602

  Tetreault, Joel ^a   Blanchard, Daniel ^a   Cahill, Aoife ^a   Chodorow, Martin ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpora; Native language identification; Text classification

Indexed keywords

CORPORA; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; FEATURE COMBINATION; LARGE CORPORA; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; TEXT CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876794548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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