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Predictable Meaning Shift: Some Linguistic Properties of Lexical Implication Rules
Proceedings of the First SIGLEX Workshop on Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation
An unsupervised method for detecting grammatical errors
NAACL 2000 Proceedings of the 1st North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference
Two theories for computing the logical form of mass expressions
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Recognizing syntactic errors in the writing of second language learners
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Unsupervised word sense disambiguation rivaling supervised methods
ACL '95 Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Using an ontology to determine English countability
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Learning the countability of English nouns from corpus data
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Automatic error detection in the Japanese learners' English spoken data
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 2
A plethora of methods for learning English countability
EMNLP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing
Reinforcing English countability prediction with one countability per discourse property
COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions
A Method for Reinforcing Noun Countability Prediction
IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
A Method for Recognizing Noisy Romanized Japanese Words in Learner English
IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
User input and interactions on Microsoft Research ESL Assistant
EdAppsNLP '09 Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Recognizing noisy romanized Japanese words in learner English
EANL '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Evaluating performance of grammatical error detection to maximize learning effect
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Creating a manually error-tagged and shallow-parsed learner corpus
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
Exploiting learners' tendencies for detecting english determiner errors
KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part II
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This paper proposes a method for detecting errors concerning article usage and singular/plural usage based on the mass count distinction. Although the mass count distinction is particularly important in detecting these errors, it has been pointed out that it is hard to make heuristic rules for distinguishing mass and count nouns. To solve the problem, first, instances of mass and count nouns are automatically collected from a corpus exploiting surface information in the proposed method. Then, words surrounding the mass (count) instances are weighted based on their frequencies. Finally, the weighted words are used for distinguishing mass and count nouns. After distinguishing mass and count nouns, the above errors can be detected by some heuristic rules. Experiments show that the proposed method distinguishes mass and count nouns in the writing of Japanese learners of English with an accuracy of 93% and that 65% of article errors are detected with a precision of 70%.