Automatic Extraction of Learner Errors in ESL Sentences Using Linguistically Enhanced Alignments

Mariano Felice, Christopher Bryant, Ted Briscoe


Abstract
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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C16-1079
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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825–835
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Mariano Felice, Christopher Bryant, and Ted Briscoe. 2016. Automatic Extraction of Learner Errors in ESL Sentences Using Linguistically Enhanced Alignments. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 825–835, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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Automatic Extraction of Learner Errors in ESL Sentences Using Linguistically Enhanced Alignments (Felice et al., COLING 2016)
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