23.1420, Books: Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification: Jarvis, Crossley (Eds)

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Subject: 23.1420, Books: Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification: Jarvis, Crossley (Eds)

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From: Elinor Robertson [marketing at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification: Jarvis, Crossley (Eds)

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Title: Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification 
Subtitle: Explorations in the Detection-based Approach 
Series Title: Second Language Acquisition  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847696977 

Editor: Scott H. Jarvis
Editor: Scott A. Crossley

Hardback: ISBN:  9781847696984 Pages: 200 Price: U.S. $ 159.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781847696984 Pages: 200 Price: U.K. £ 99.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781847696977 Pages: 200 Price: U.K. £ 29.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781847696977 Pages: 200 Price: U.S. $ 49.95

Abstract:

Recent work has pointed to the need for a detection-based approach to transfer 
capable of discovering elusive crosslinguistic effects through the use of human 
judges and computer classifiers that can learn to predict learners' language 
backgrounds based on their patterns of language use. This book addresses that 
need. It details the nature of the detection-based approach, discusses how this 
approach fits into the overall scope of transfer research, and discusses the few 
previous studies that have laid the groundwork for this approach. The core of 
the book consists of five empirical studies that use computer classifiers to 
detect the native-language affiliations of texts written by foreign language 
learners of English. The results highlight combinations of language features that 
are the most reliable predictors of learners' language backgrounds. 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition

Written In: English  (eng)

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