KU Leuven at HOO-2012: A Hybrid Approach to Detection and Correction of Determiner and Preposition Errors in Non-native English Text

Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 263-271

  Quan, Li ^a   Kolomiyets, Oleksandr ^a   Moens, Marie Francine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DETERMINISTIC RULE; ENTROPY CLASSIFIERS; HIGH QUALITY; HYBRID APPROACH; LANGUAGE MODEL; MAXIMUM-ENTROPY; NON-NATIVE; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION; TEXT COLLECTION;

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EID: 84882934559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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