Using Contextual Speller Techniques and Language Modeling for ESL Error Correction

IJCNLP 2008 - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 449-456

  Gamon, Michael ^a   Gao, Jianfeng ^a   Brockett, Chris ^a   Klementiev, Alexandre ^b   Dolan, William B ^a   Belenko, Dmitriy ^a   Vanderwende, Lucy ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CORRECTION OF ERRORS; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGES (ESL); ERROR TYPES; ERRORS CORRECTION; LANGUAGE MODEL; MODULAR SYSTEM; NON-NATIVE;

ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 85098966137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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