Papers with ESL
Improving Grammatical Error Correction with Machine Translation Pairs (2020.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to generate error-corrected sentence pairs for improving grammatical error correction are not available. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to generate error-corrected sentence pairs for improving grammatical error correction based on machine translation models of different qualities . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can generate multiple error-corrected sentence pairs from Chinese to English text. |
Predicting Foreign Language Usage from English-Only Social Media Posts (N18-2)
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| Challenge: | Social media is known for its multi-cultural and multilingual interactions, a natural product of which is code-mixing. |
| Approach: | They analyze 6 million tweets produced by 27 thousand multilingual users speaking 12 other languages besides English to build predictive models to infer non-English languages users speak exclusively from their tweets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models are based on a corpus of 6 million tweets produced by 27 thousand multilingual users speaking 12 other languages besides English . they show that content, style and syntax are the most predictive of non-English languages that users speak on Twitter. |
Interaction Matters: An Evaluation Framework for Interactive Dialogue Assessment on English Second Language Conversations (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing data on ESL speakers' communication and interaction skills are lacking in the evaluation of the sophisticated features of dialogue. |
| Approach: | They propose an evaluation framework for interactive dialogue assessment in ESL speakers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework provides a means to assess ESL communication, useful for language assessment. |