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| Title | Native Language Identification Using Large, Longitudinal Data |
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| Authors | Xiao Jiang, Yufan Guo, Jeroen Geertzen, Dora Alexopoulou, Lin Sun and Anna Korhonen |
| Abstract | Native Language Identification (NLI) is a task aimed at determining the native language (L1) of learners of second language (L2) on the basis of their written texts. To date, research on NLI has focused on relatively small corpora. We apply NLI to the recently released EFCamDat corpus which is not only multiple times larger than previous L2 corpora but also provides longitudinal data at several proficiency levels. Our investigation using accurate machine learning with a wide range of linguistic features reveals interesting patterns in the longitudinal data which are useful for both further development of NLI and its application to research on L2 acquisition. |
| Topics | Multilinguality, Acquisition |
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Native Language Identification Using Large, Longitudinal Data |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{JIANG14.1068, author = {Xiao Jiang and Yufan Guo and Jeroen Geertzen and Dora Alexopoulou and Lin Sun and Anna Korhonen}, title = {Native Language Identification Using Large, Longitudinal Data}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |