21 November: DCLRS -- Automatic correction of prepositions and determiners in

Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar: Index of November 2008 | Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar - Index of year: 2008 | Full index




Seminar Announcement:

Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar
DCLRS 2008/2009
DCU DIT TCD UCD


Venue: Jonathan Swift Lecture Theatre (Arts Building 2041a)
Trinity College Dublin
Time: 16:00, Friday, November 28, 2008



Title:

Automatic correction of prepositions and determiners in non-native
English


Speakers:

Dr. Rachele De Felice
Educational Testing Service
Princeton, NJ 08541



Abstract:


In this talk, I present a contextual feature-based approach to the
automatic acquisition of preposition and determiner models of
use. These models can associate prepositions and determiners to their
context with 70.12% and 92.15% accuracy respectively for grammatical
text. I also show how they can be used for the automatic detection of
errors in non-native English writing, and illustrate some of the
challenges presented by this task


Autumn Schedule:

October 17 Mark Buckley (Edinburgh/Saarbruecken)
October 24 Marilyn Walker (Sheffield)
October 31 Tony Veale (UCD)
November 7 Jonathan Ginzburg (KCL)
November 14 John Kelleher and Brian Mac Namee (DIT)
November 21 Alexander Troussov (IBM, Dublin)
November 28 Rachele De Felice (Oxford)
December 5 Nick Campbell (ATR/TCD)

Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar - Index of November 2008 | Index of year: 2008 | Full index