
Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners
Morgan and Claypool Life Sciences (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 28. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
170 pages
978-1-62705-013-5 (ISBN)
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.
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.
More details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
San Rafael, CA
United States
Publishing group
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 187 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62705-013-5 (9781627050135)
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Content
- 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
- 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