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Assessing the validity of new paradigmatic complexity measures as criterial features for proficiency in L2 writings in English
Cyriel Mallart, Andrew Simpkin, Nicolas Ballier +5
This article addresses Second Language (L2) writing development through an investigation of new grammatical and structural complexity metrics. We explore the paradigmatic productio…
Fine-tuning a Subtle Parsing Distinction Using a Probabilistic Decision Tree: the Case of Postnominal "that" in Noun Complement Clauses vs. Relative Clauses
Zineddine Tighidet, Nicolas Ballier
In this paper we investigated two different methods to parse relative and noun complement clauses in English and resorted to distinct tags for their corresponding that as a relativ…
Approches quantitatives de l'analyse des pr{é}dictions en traduction automatique neuronale (TAN)
Maria Zimina-Poirot, Nicolas Ballier, Jean-Baptiste Yunès
As part of a larger project on optimal learning conditions in neural machine translation, we investigate characteristic training phases of translation engines. All our experiments…
Predicting CEFRL levels in learner English on the basis of metrics and full texts
Taylor Arnold, Nicolas Ballier, Thomas Gaillat +1
This paper analyses the contribution of language metrics and, potentially, of linguistic structures, to classify French learners of English according to levels of the Common Europe…