Cross-Lingual Lexico-Semantic Transfer in Language Learning
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Kochmar, E
Shutova, E
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Lexico-semantic knowledge of our native language provides an initial foundation for second language learning. In this paper, we investigate whether and to what extent the lexico-semantic models of the native language (L1) are transferred to the second language (L2). Specifically, we focus on the problem of lexical choice and investigate it in the context of three typologically diverse languages: Russian, Spanish and English. We show that a statistical semantic model learned from L1 data improves automatic error detection in L2 for the speakers of the respective L1. Finally, we investigate whether the semantic model learned from a particular L1 is portable to other, typologically related languages.
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Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Ekaterina Kochmar’s research is supported by Cambridge English Language Assessment via the ALTA Institute. Ekaterina Shutova’s research is supported by the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.