HOO 2012 Error Recognition and Correction Shared Task: Cambridge University Submission Report

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 242-250

  Kochmar, Ekaterina ^a   Andersen, Øistein ^b   Briscoe, Ted ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ILexIR Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; ERROR CORRECTION; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TEXT PROCESSING;

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; ERROR CORRECTION MODELS; ERROR RECOGNITION; ERRORS CORRECTION; FEATURE TYPES; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; NAIVE BAYES CLASSIFIERS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; SPECIFIC ADAPTATIONS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84937603557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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