[Corpora-List] (New book) Leacock et al: Automated Grammatical Error Detection (2nd edition)

[Graeme Hirst]

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners, Second
Edition

by Claudia Leacock, Martin Chodorow, Michael Gamon, and Joel Tetreault

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #25 (Morgan &
Claypool Publishers), 2014, 170 pages 

** This is an extensive revision of the 2010 edition of this book.

ABSTRACT:

It has been estimated that over a billion people are using or
learning English as a second or foreign language, and the numbers are
growing not only for English but for other languages as well. These
language learners provide a burgeoning market for tools that help
identify and correct learners' writing errors. Unfortunately, the
errors targeted by typical commercial proofreading tools do not
include those aspects of a second language that are hardest to learn.
This volume describes the types of constructions English language
learners find most difficult: constructions containing prepositions,
articles, and collocations. It provides an overview of the automated
approaches that have been developed to identify and correct these and
other classes of learner errors in a number of languages.

Error annotation and system evaluation are particularly important
topics in grammatical error detection because there are no commonly
accepted standards. Chapters in the book describe the options
available to researchers, recommend best practices for reporting
results, and present annotation and evaluation schemes.

The final chapters explore recent innovative work that opens new
directions for research. It is the authors' hope that this volume
will continue to contribute to the growing interest in grammatical
error detection by encouraging researchers to take a closer look at
the field and its many challenging problems.

Table of Contents: Acknowledgments / Introduction / Background /
Special Problems of Language Learners / Evaluating Error Detection
Systems / Data-Driven Approaches to Articles and Prepositions /
Collocation Errors / Different Errors and Different Approaches /
Annotating Learner Errors / Emerging Directions / Conclusion /
Bibliography / Authors' Biographies 

http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00562ED1V01Y201401HLT025


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