TY - GEN
T1 - Classification and clustering English writing errors based on native language
AU - Flanagan, Brendan
AU - Yin, Chengjiu
AU - Suzuki, Takahiko
AU - Hirokawa, Sachio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/9/29
Y1 - 2014/9/29
N2 - It is important for language learners to determine and reflect on their writing errors in order to overcome weaknesses. Each language learner has their own unique writing error characteristics and therefore has different learning needs. In this paper, we analyze the writing errors of foreign language learners on the language learning SNS website Lang-8 to investigate the characteristics of errors by native language. 142,465 sentences were collected from Lang-8 for analysis. For each native language, the predicted scores of 15 error categories from SVM machine learning models are used as a vector representation of each sentence. These score vectors are then clustered to determine error co-occurrence within the same sentence. The results were then analyzed to determine the error characteristics of different native languages.
AB - It is important for language learners to determine and reflect on their writing errors in order to overcome weaknesses. Each language learner has their own unique writing error characteristics and therefore has different learning needs. In this paper, we analyze the writing errors of foreign language learners on the language learning SNS website Lang-8 to investigate the characteristics of errors by native language. 142,465 sentences were collected from Lang-8 for analysis. For each native language, the predicted scores of 15 error categories from SVM machine learning models are used as a vector representation of each sentence. These score vectors are then clustered to determine error co-occurrence within the same sentence. The results were then analyzed to determine the error characteristics of different native languages.
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U2 - 10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2014.72
DO - 10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2014.72
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84918504424
T3 - Proceedings - 2014 IIAI 3rd International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics, IIAI-AAI 2014
SP - 318
EP - 323
BT - Proceedings - 2014 IIAI 3rd International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics, IIAI-AAI 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 3rd IIAI International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics, IIAI-AAI 2014
Y2 - 31 August 2014 through 4 September 2014
ER -