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FLAIRS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Discriminating between Second Language Learning Text-Types
Text classification remains one of the major fields of research in natural language processing. This paper evaluates the use of the computational tool Coh-Metrix as a means to dis...
Scott A. Crossley, Philip M. McCarthy, Danielle S....
FLAIRS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Explore Second Language Lexical Development
This study explores how Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) can be used as a method to examine the lexical development of second language (L2) speakers. This year long longitudinal stu...
Scott A. Crossley, Thomas L. Salsbury, Philip M. M...
ICALT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
An Empirical Exploration of Using Wiki in an English as a Second Language Course
In this paper, we present an empirical study of using a new and cost-effective Web-based collaboration software, Wiki, in a freshman-level English as a second language (ESL) cours...
Hao-Chuan Wang, Chun-Hung Lu, Jun-Yi Yang, Hsin-We...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Refining Generative Language Models using Discriminative Learning
We propose a new approach to language modeling which utilizes discriminative learning methods. Our approach is an iterative one: starting with an initial language model, in each i...
Ben Sandbank
SPEECH
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Similarity and familiarity: Second language sentence recognition in first- and second-language multi-talker babble
The intelligibility of speech in noisy environments depends not only on the functionality of listeners' peripheral auditory systems, but also on cognitive factors such as the...
Kristin J. Van Engen