Automated grammatical error detection for language learners
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Automated grammatical error detection for language learners
（Synthesis lectures on human language technologies, 25）
Morgan & Claypool, c2014
2nd ed
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Description
It has been estimated that over a billion people are using or learning English as a second or foreign language, and the numbers are growing not only for English but for other languages as well. These language learners provide a burgeoning market for tools that help identify and correct learners' writing errors. Unfortunately, the errors targeted by typical commercial proofreading tools do not include those aspects of a second language that are hardest to learn. This volume describes the types of constructions English language learners find most difficult: constructions containing prepositions, articles, and collocations. It provides an overview of the automated approaches that have been developed to identify and correct these and other classes of learner errors in a number of languages. Error annotation and system evaluation are particularly important topics in grammatical error detection because there are no commonly accepted standards.
Chapters in the book describe the options available to researchers, recommend best practices for reporting results, and present annotation and evaluation schemes. The final chapters explore recent innovative work that opens new directions for research. It is the authors' hope that this volume will continue to contribute to the growing interest in grammatical error detection by encouraging researchers to take a closer look at the field and its many challenging problems.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Background
Special Problems of Language Learners
Evaluating Error Detection Systems
Data-Driven Approaches to Articles and Prepositions
Collocation Errors
Different Errors and Different Approaches
Annotating Learner Errors
Emerging Directions
Conclusion
Bibliography
Authors' Biographies
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