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A Statistical Model Based on the Three Head Words for Detecting Article Errors
Ryo NAGATA Tatsuya IGUCHI Fumito MASUI Atsuo KAWAI Naoki ISU
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Vol.E88-D
No.7
pp.1700-1706 Publication Date: 2005/07/01 Online ISSN:
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.7.1700 Print ISSN: 0916-8532 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Educational Technology Keyword: article errors, Japanese learners of English, three head words, statistical model, the data sparseness problem,
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Summary:
In this paper, we propose a statistical model for detecting article errors, which Japanese learners of English often make in English writing. It is based on the three head words--the verb head, the preposition, and the noun head. To overcome the data sparseness problem, we apply the backed-off estimate to it. Experiments show that its performance (F-measure=0.70) is better than that of other methods. Apart from the performance, it has two advantages: (i) Rules for detecting article errors are automatically generated as conditional probabilities once a corpus is given; (ii) Its recall and precision rates are adjustable.
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