Exploiting learners' tendencies for detecting english determiner errors

  • Authors:
  • Ryo Nagata;Atsuo Kawai

  • Affiliations:
  • Konan University and Mie University;Konan University and Mie University

  • Venue:
  • KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper proposes a method for detecting determiner errors, which are highly frequent in learner English. To augment conventional methods, the proposed method exploits a strong tendency displayed by learners in determiner usage, i.e., mistakenly omitting determiners most of the time. Its basic idea is simple and applicable to almost any conventional method. This paper combines this idea with countability prediction, which outperforms the conventional methods, achieving an F-measure of 0.613.