Identifying the L1 of non-native writers: The CMU-Haifa system

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 279-287

  Tsvetkov, Yulia ^a   Twitto, Naama ^b   Schneider, Nathan ^a   Ordan, Noam ^b   Faruqui, Manaal ^a   Chahuneau, Victor ^a   Wintner, Shuly ^b   Dyer, Chris ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

HIGH-ACCURACY; LEARN+; MULTI-CLASS LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NON-NATIVE;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 85063844411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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