A Report on the First Native Language Identification Shared Task

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 48-57

  Tetreault, Joel ^a   Blanchard, Daniel ^b   Cahill, Aoife ^b  

^a NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^b EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING;

EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS; LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; LARGE CORPORA; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; PRE-PROCESSING; PROBLEM AREAS; SUBTASK;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85096901307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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