Automatic Identification of Learners’ Language Background based on their Writing in Czech

6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1428-1436

  Aharodnik, Katsiaryna ^a,b   Chang, Marco ^a   Feldman, Anna ^a   Hana, Jirka ^c  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION;

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; BINARY CLASSIFICATION; CONSISTENT SETS; CONTENT-BASED FEATURES; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; SVM CLASSIFIERS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 85014618177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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