Feature analysis for native language identification

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9041, Issue , 2015, Pages 644-657

  Nisioi, Sergiu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b Oracle RightNow   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

FEATURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTION WORDS; LEARNER CORPORA; MOTHER TONGUES; NATIVE LANGUAGE; OPEN LANGUAGES; PART OF SPEECH; UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84942694243     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18111-0_49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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