Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language

Leshem Choshen; Dmitry Nikolaev; Yevgeni Berzak; Omri Abend

doi:10.18653/v1/2020.conll-1.7

Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language

Leshem Choshen, Dmitry Nikolaev, Yevgeni Berzak, Omri Abend

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Abstract

We present a method for classifying syntactic errors in learner language, namely errors whose correction alters the morphosyntactic structure of a sentence. The methodology builds on the established Universal Dependencies syntactic representation scheme, and provides complementary information to other error-classification systems. Unlike existing error classification methods, our method is applicable across languages, which we showcase by producing a detailed picture of syntactic errors in learner English and learner Russian. We further demonstrate the utility of the methodology for analyzing the outputs of leading Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CoNLL 2020 - 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference
Editors	Raquel Fernandez, Tal Linzen
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	97-107
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781952148637
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.conll-1.7
State	Published - 2020
Event	24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 19 Nov 2020 → 20 Nov 2020

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Name	CoNLL 2020 - 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference

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Conference	24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2020
City	Virtual, Online
Period	19/11/20 → 20/11/20

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Choshen, L., Nikolaev, D., Berzak, Y., & Abend, O. (2020). Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language. In R. Fernandez, & T. Linzen (Eds.), CoNLL 2020 - 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 97-107). (CoNLL 2020 - 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.conll-1.7

Choshen, Leshem ; Nikolaev, Dmitry ; Berzak, Yevgeni et al. / Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language. CoNLL 2020 - 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference. editor / Raquel Fernandez ; Tal Linzen. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020. pp. 97-107 (CoNLL 2020 - 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference).

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Choshen, L, Nikolaev, D, Berzak, Y & Abend, O 2020, Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language. in R Fernandez & T Linzen (eds), CoNLL 2020 - 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference. CoNLL 2020 - 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 97-107, 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2020, Virtual, Online, 19/11/20. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.conll-1.7

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Choshen L, Nikolaev D, Berzak Y, Abend O. Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language. In Fernandez R, Linzen T, editors, CoNLL 2020 - 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2020. p. 97-107. (CoNLL 2020 - 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference). doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.conll-1.7

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