Automated postediting of documents
AAAI '94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 1)
Maximum entropy models for natural language ambiguity resolution
Maximum entropy models for natural language ambiguity resolution
Definiteness predictions for Japanese noun phrases
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Countability and number in Japanese to English machine translation
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Classifiers in Japanese-to-English machine translation
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
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
Memory-based learning for article generation
ConLL '00 Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Learning language in logic and the 4th conference on Computational natural language learning - Volume 7
A Method for Recognizing Noisy Romanized Japanese Words in Learner English
IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
Opportunities for Natural Language Processing Research in Education
CICLing '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
A classifier-based approach to preposition and determiner error correction in L2 English
COLING '08 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
The ups and downs of preposition error detection in ESL writing
COLING '08 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
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
GenERRate: generating errors for use in grammatical error detection
EdAppsNLP '09 Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Native judgments of non-native usage: experiments in preposition error detection
HumanJudge '08 Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Judgements in Computational Linguistics
Recognizing noisy romanized Japanese words in learner English
EANL '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Automatic identification of discourse moves in scientific article introductions
EANL '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
ACL-IJCNLP '09 Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Annotating language errors in texts: investigating argumentation and decision schemas
ACL-IJCNLP '09 Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Training paradigms for correcting errors in grammar and usage
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Using mostly native data to correct errors in learners' writing: a meta-classifier approach
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Annotating ESL errors: challenges and rewards
IUNLPBEA '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Fifth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Search right and thou shalt find...: using web queries for learner error detection
IUNLPBEA '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Fifth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Rethinking grammatical error annotation and evaluation with the Amazon Mechanical Turk
IUNLPBEA '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Fifth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Building a Korean web corpus for analyzing learner language
WAC-6 '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Sixth Web as Corpus Workshop
Generating confusion sets for context-sensitive error correction
EMNLP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Evaluating performance of grammatical error detection to maximize learning effect
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Syntax-driven machine translation as a model of ESL revision
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Grammatical error correction with alternating structure optimization
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
Algorithm selection and model adaptation for ESL correction tasks
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
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
Developing methodology for Korean particle error detection
IUNLPBEA '11 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
WMT '11 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
NUS at the HOO 2011 pilot shared task
ENLG '11 Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Stylometric analysis of scientific articles
NAACL HLT '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
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
NUS at the HOO 2012 shared task
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP
Precision isn't everything: a hybrid approach to grammatical error detection
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP
HOO 2012 error recognition and correction shared task: Cambridge University submission report
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP
The UI system in the HOO 2012 shared task on error correction
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP
A meta learning approach to grammatical error correction
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Short Papers - Volume 2
A beam-search decoder for grammatical error correction
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
Developing learner corpus annotation for Korean particle errors
LAW VI '12 Proceedings of the Sixth Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Evidence in automatic error correction improves learners' english skill
CICLing'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - Volume 2
Bucking the trend: improved evaluation and annotation practices for ESL error detection systems
Language Resources and Evaluation
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One of the most difficult challenges faced by non-native speakers of English is mastering the system of English articles. We trained a maximum entropy classifier to select among a/an, the, or zero article for noun phrases (NPs), based on a set of features extracted from the local context of each. When the classifier was trained on 6 million NPs, its performance on published text was about 83% correct. We then used the classifier to detect article errors in the TOEFL essays of native speakers of Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. These writers made such errors in about one out of every eight NPs, or almost once in every three sentences. The classifier's agreement with human annotators was 85% (kappa = 0.48) when it selected among a/an, the, or zero article. Agreement was 89% (kappa = 0.56) when it made a binary (yes/no) decision about whether the NP should have an article. Even with these levels of overall agreement, precision and recall in error detection were only 0.52 and 0.80, respectively. However, when the classifier was allowed to skip cases where its confidence was low, precision rose to 0.90, with 0.40 recall. Additional improvements in performance may require features that reflect general knowledge to handle phenomena such as indirect prior reference. In August 2005, the classifier was deployed as a component of Educational Testing Service's Criterion$^{SM}$ Online Writing Evaluation Service.