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Survey on the Use of Typological Information in Natural Language Processing
Helen O'Horan, Yevgeni Berzak, Ivan Vulić +2
In recent years linguistic typology, which classifies the world's languages according to their functional and structural properties, has been widely used to support multilingual NL…
Universal Dependencies for Learner English
Yevgeni Berzak, Jessica Kenney, Carolyn Spadine +5
We introduce the Treebank of Learner English (TLE), the first publicly available syntactic treebank for English as a Second Language (ESL). The TLE provides manually annotated POS…
Anchoring and Agreement in Syntactic Annotations
Yevgeni Berzak, Yan Huang, Andrei Barbu +2
We present a study on two key characteristics of human syntactic annotations: anchoring and agreement. Anchoring is a well known cognitive bias in human decision making, where judg…
Do You See What I Mean? Visual Resolution of Linguistic Ambiguities
Yevgeni Berzak, Andrei Barbu, Daniel Harari +2
Understanding language goes hand in hand with the ability to integrate complex contextual information obtained via perception. In this work, we present a novel task for grounded la…
Contrastive Analysis with Predictive Power: Typology Driven Estimation of Grammatical Error Distributions in ESL
Yevgeni Berzak, Roi Reichart, Boris Katz
This work examines the impact of cross-linguistic transfer on grammatical errors in English as Second Language (ESL) texts. Using a computational framework that formalizes the theo…