Can characters reveal your native language? A language-independent approach to native language identification

EMNLP 2014 - 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1363-1373

  Ionescu, Radu Tudor ^a   Popescu, Marius ^a   Cahill, Aoife ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUTHORSHIP IDENTIFICATION; KERNEL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; KERNEL RIDGE REGRESSIONS; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; MULTIPLE KERNEL LEARNING; PLAGIARISM DETECTION; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84926058860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/d14-1142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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