Inferring (mal) rules from pupils' protocols
Selected and updated papers from the proceedings of the 1982 European conference on Progress in artificial intelligence
Natural language understanding (2nd ed.)
Natural language understanding (2nd ed.)
Tutorial response generation in a writing tool for deaf learners of English
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Comlex Syntax: building a computational lexicon
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Modeling the Acquisition of English: An Intelligent CALL Approach
UM '01 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on User Modeling 2001
Combining trigram and automatic weight distribution in Chinese spelling error correction
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
An unsupervised method for detecting grammatical errors
NAACL 2000 Proceedings of the 1st North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference
Parsing Ill-Formed Text Using an Error Grammar
Artificial Intelligence Review
Empirical Derivation of a Sequence of User Stereotypes for Language Learning
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
The performance of a grammar checker with deviant language input
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Error profiling: toward a model of English acquisition for deaf learners
ACL '01 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Automated rating of ESL essays
HLT-NAACL-EDUC '03 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 03 workshop on Building educational applications using natural language processing - Volume 2
A feedback-augmented method for detecting errors in the writing of learners of English
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Designing and developing a language environment for second language writers
Computers & Education
Capturing the Evolution of Grammatical Knowledge in a CALL System for Deaf Learners of English
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
Adapting a WSJ-trained parser to grammatically noisy text
HLT-Short '08 Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technologies: Short Papers
Modeling user language proficiency in a writing tutor for deaf learners of English
ASSESSEVALNLP '99 Proceedings of a Symposium on Computer Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing
Exploiting the student model to emphasize language teaching pedagogy in natural language processing
ASSESSEVALNLP '99 Proceedings of a Symposium on Computer Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing
Using first and second language models to correct preposition errors in second language authoring
EdAppsNLP '09 Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Backbone extraction and pruning for speeding up a deep parser for dialogue systems
ScaNaLU '06 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding
A toolkit to assist L2 learners become independent writers
CL&W '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Writing: Writing Processes and Authoring Aids
A grammar correction algorithm: deep parsing and minimal corrections for a grammar checker
FG'09 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Formal grammar
On Morphological Analysis for Learner Language, Focusing on Russian
Research on Language and Computation
Detecting article errors based on the mass count distinction
IJCNLP'05 Proceedings of the Second international joint conference on Natural Language Processing
Feature constraint logic and error detection in ICALL systems
LACL'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
Glue rules for robust chart realization
ENLG '11 Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Google books n-gram corpus used as a grammar checker
EACL 2012 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Writing (CLW 2012): Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Document Creation and Document Engineering
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This paper reports on the recognition component of an intelligent tutoring system that is designed to help foreign language speakers learn standard English. The system models the grammar of the learner, with this instantiation of the system tailored to signers of American Sign Language (ASL). We discuss the theoretical motivations for the system, various difficulties that have been encountered in the implementation, as well as the methods we have used to overcome these problems. Our method of capturing ungrammaticalities involves using mal-rules (also called 'error productions'). However, the straightforward addition of some mal-rules causes significant performance problems with the parser. For instance, the ASL population has a strong tendency to drop pronouns and the auxiliary verb 'to be'. Being able to account for these as sentences results in an explosion in the number of possible parses for each sentence. This explosion, left unchecked, greatly hampers the performance of the system. We discuss how this is handled by taking into account expectations from the specific population (some of which are captured in our unique user model). The different representations of lexical items at various points in the acquisition process are modeled by using mal-rules, which obviates the need for multiple lexicons. The grammar is evaluated on its ability to correctly diagnose agreement problems in actual sentences produced by ASL native speakers.