UM-Checker: A hybrid system for English grammatical error correction

CoNLL 2013 - 17th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Shared Task

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 34-42

  Xing, Junwen ^a   Wang, Longyue ^a   Wong, Derek F ^a   Chao, Lidia S ^a   Zeng, Xiaodong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; HYBRID SYSTEMS;

CONFUSION MATRICES; DETERMINISTIC RULE; GRAMMATICAL ERROR DETECTIONS; GRAMMATICAL ERRORS; PARTICIPATING TEAMS; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; PRECISION AND RECALL; RULE-BASED FILTERS;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 84951331085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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