Using statistical techniques and web search to correct ESL errors

CALICO Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 491-511

  Gamon, Michael ^a   Leacock, Claudia ^a   Brockett, Chris ^a   Dolan, William B ^a   Gao, Jianfeng ^a   Belenko, Dmitriy ^a   Klementiev, Alexandre ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic error detection; Computational linguistics; Data driven error detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045160911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20569017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/cj.v26i3.491-511     Document Type: Article

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