Automatic extraction of learner errors in ESL sentences using linguistically enhanced alignments
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Felice, M
Bryant, C
Briscoe, T
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We propose a new method of automatically extracting learner errors from parallel English as a Second Language (ESL) sentences in an effort to regularise annotation formats and reduce inconsistencies. Specifically, given an original and corrected sentence, our method first uses a linguistically enhanced alignment algorithm to determine the most likely mappings between tokens, and secondly employs a rule-based function to decide which alignments should be merged. Our method beats all previous approaches on the tested datasets, achieving state-of-the-art results for automatic error extraction.
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COLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016: Technical Papers
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ACL