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A Computational Approach to Detecting Collocation Errors in the Writing of Non-Native Speakers of English
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Futagi, Yoko; Deane, Paul; Chodorow, Martin; Tetreault, Joel – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
This paper describes the first prototype of an automated tool for detecting collocation errors in texts written by non-native speakers of English. Candidate strings are extracted by pattern matching over POS-tagged text. Since learner texts often contain spelling and morphological errors, the tool attempts to automatically correct them in order to…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Limited English Speaking, Computational Linguistics