Exploring Grammatical Error Correction with Not-So-Crummy Machine Translation

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 44-53

  Madnani, Nitin ^a   Tetreault, Joel ^a   Chodorow, Martin ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; ERROR TYPES; ERRORS CORRECTION; GOOGLE TRANSLATE; GRAMMATICAL ERRORS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PIVOT LANGUAGE; ROUND TRIP;

ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 84954260777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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