This paper presents work on how we can link word lists derived from learner corpora to target proficiency levels for lexical complexity analysis. The word lists present frequency distributions over different proficiency levels. We present a mapping approach which takes these distributions and maps each word to a single proficiency level. We are also investigating how we can evaluate the mapping...

• Improving the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) on learner's speech in a non-dominant variety pluricentric language by cumulating resources from different varieties same language. Through transfer learning approach, knowledge dominant can be transferred to and this benefits non-native recognition. Introducing plausible pronunciation errors native corpus based evaluate Pronunci...

Many  elements  contribute  to  the  relative  difficulty  in  acquiring  specific  aspects  of  English  as  a foreign  language  (Goldschneider  &  DeKeyser,  2001).  Modal  auxiliary  verbs  (e.g.  could,  might), are  examples  of  a  structure  that  is  difficult  for  many  learners.  Not  only  are  they  particularly complex  semantically,  but  especially  in  the  Malaysian  context ...

The purpose of this three-year study is to examine the effects of internet communication on second language acquisition. Specifically, we are interested in how communicating with native speakers of the target language may affect language learning, and how that contact interacts with different modes of electronic communication. The project is being conducted by a large American university (the P...

One of the reasons for the popularity of dependency approaches in recent computational linguistics is their ability to efficiently derive the core functorargument structure of a sentence as an interface to semantic interpretation. Exploring this feature of dependency structures further, in this paper we show how basic dependency representations can be mapped to semantic representation as used i...

1. Introduction The purpose of this research is to investigate the variability of interlanguage that has been claimed in previous study by means of a corpus-based quantitative analysis. It aims to observe the style shifting of various grammatical features and word formation errors by tagging errors in 297 learners' data. Various studies have been undertaken to describe and explain the process o...

Abstract The present study aims to explore the applicability of automatic analysis L2-Korean learner corpora, with a special focus on learners’ use clause-level construction. For this purpose, we investigate L1-Mandarin written production two passive construction types in Korean – suffixal and periphrastic by devising pattern-extraction process through NLP techniques. We reporting how construct...