A Portuguese Native Language Identification Dataset

Iria del Río Gayo, Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi


Abstract
In this paper we present NLI-PT, the first Portuguese dataset compiled for Native Language Identification (NLI), the task of identifying an author’s first language based on their second language writing. The dataset includes 1,868 student essays written by learners of European Portuguese, native speakers of the following L1s: Chinese, English, Spanish, German, Russian, French, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Tetum, Arabic, Polish, Korean, Romanian, and Swedish. NLI-PT includes the original student text and four different types of annotation: POS, fine-grained POS, constituency parses, and dependency parses. NLI-PT can be used not only in NLI but also in research on several topics in the field of Second Language Acquisition and educational NLP. We discuss possible applications of this dataset and present the results obtained for the first lexical baseline system for Portuguese NLI.
Anthology ID:
W18-0534
Volume:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Joel Tetreault, Jill Burstein, Ekaterina Kochmar, Claudia Leacock, Helen Yannakoudakis
Venue:
BEA
SIG:
SIGEDU
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
291–296
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-0534
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-0534
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Cite (ACL):
Iria del Río Gayo, Marcos Zampieri, and Shervin Malmasi. 2018. A Portuguese Native Language Identification Dataset. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 291–296, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
A Portuguese Native Language Identification Dataset (del Río Gayo et al., BEA 2018)
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-0534.pdf
Data
NLI-PT