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Detecting and Diagnosing Grammatical Errors for Beginning Learners of German: From Learner Corpus Annotation to Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Boyd, Adriane Amelia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1325170396

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2012, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Linguistics.
This thesis presents a corpus of beginning learner German with a reliable error annotation scheme and an approach for detecting and diagnosing grammatical errors in learner language. A constraint-based dependency parser provides the foundation for a flexible and modular analysis of German by representing parsing as a constraint satisfaction problem. The grammar checker, Fledgling, detects and diagnoses errors using constraint relaxation with a general-purpose conflict detection algorithm. Fledgling is developed and evaluated using authentic learner productions from the learner corpus. It judges grammaticality correctly for 80% of sentences and is 82-91% accurate in determining whether a sentence contains selection, agreement, or word order errors.
Walt Detmar Meurers, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
Michael White, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
Kathryn Corl, PhD (Committee Member)
William Schuler, PhD (Committee Member)
291 p.
Computer Science; Linguistics
learner corpus; grammar checking; natural language processing; constraint satisfaction problem; intelligent computer-aided language learning

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  • Boyd, A. A. (2012). Detecting and Diagnosing Grammatical Errors for Beginning Learners of German: From Learner Corpus Annotation to Constraint Satisfaction Problems [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1325170396

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Boyd, Adriane. Detecting and Diagnosing Grammatical Errors for Beginning Learners of German: From Learner Corpus Annotation to Constraint Satisfaction Problems. 2012. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1325170396.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Boyd, Adriane. "Detecting and Diagnosing Grammatical Errors for Beginning Learners of German: From Learner Corpus Annotation to Constraint Satisfaction Problems." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1325170396

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