Maximizing Classification Accuracy in Native Language Identification

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 111-118

  Jarvis, Scott ^a   Bestgen, Yves ^b   Pepper, Steve ^c  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS; N-GRAMS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TEST SETS; TRAINING SETS; UNIQUE FEATURES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85096922696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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