TY - GEN
T1 - Evidence in automatic error correction improves learners' English skill
AU - Umezawa, Jiro
AU - Mizuno, Junta
AU - Okazaki, Naoaki
AU - Inui, Kentaro
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Mastering proper article usage, especially in the English language, has been known to pose an extreme challenge to non-native speakers whose L1 languages have no concept of articles. Although the development of correction methods for article usage has posed a challenge for researchers, current methods do not perfectly correct the articles. In addition, proper article usage is not taught by these methods. Therefore, they are not useful for those wishing to learn a language with article usage. In this paper, we discuss the necessity of presenting evidence for corrections of English article usage. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach to improve the writing skills of English learners.
AB - Mastering proper article usage, especially in the English language, has been known to pose an extreme challenge to non-native speakers whose L1 languages have no concept of articles. Although the development of correction methods for article usage has posed a challenge for researchers, current methods do not perfectly correct the articles. In addition, proper article usage is not taught by these methods. Therefore, they are not useful for those wishing to learn a language with article usage. In this paper, we discuss the necessity of presenting evidence for corrections of English article usage. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach to improve the writing skills of English learners.
KW - Automatic Correction
KW - English Article
KW - Grammatical Error
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-37256-8_46
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-37256-8_46
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84875510251
SN - 9783642372551
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 559
EP - 571
BT - Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 14th International Conference, CICLing 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 14th Annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2013
Y2 - 24 March 2013 through 30 March 2013
ER -