Using parse features for preposition selection and error detection

  • Authors:
  • Joel Tetreault;Jennifer Foster;Martin Chodorow

  • Affiliations:
  • Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ;Dublin City University, Ireland;Hunter College of CUNY, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACLShort '10 Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We evaluate the effect of adding parse features to a leading model of preposition usage. Results show a significant improvement in the preposition selection task on native speaker text and a modest increment in precision and recall in an ESL error detection task. Analysis of the parser output indicates that it is robust enough in the face of noisy non-native writing to extract useful information.