Contrastive Analysis with Predictive Power: Typology Driven Estimation of Grammatical Error Distributions in ESL
This work examines the impact of crosslinguistic transfer on grammatical errors in English as Second Language (ESL) texts. Using a computational framework that formalizes the theory of Contrastive Analysis (CA), we demonstrate that language specific error distributions in ESL writing can be predicte...
Main Authors: | Berzak, Yevgeni, Reichart, Roi, Katz, Boris |
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Format: | Technical Report |
Language: | en_US |
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Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103398 |
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