Measuring Interlanguage: Native language identification with l1-influence metrics

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 779-784

  Brooke, Julian ^a   Hirst, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interlanguage; Native Language Identification; Unsupervised Text Classification

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

INTERLANGUAGE; LEARNER CORPORA; NATIVE LANGUAGE; SECOND LANGUAGE; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; TRAINING CORPUS; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; WORD TRANSLATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84994380481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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