4 papers
Predicting Native Language from Gaze
Yevgeni Berzak, Chie Nakamura, Suzanne Flynn +1
A fundamental question in language learning concerns the role of a speaker's first language in second language acquisition. We present a novel methodology for studying this questio…
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…
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…