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Assessing Language Proficiency from Eye Movements in Reading
Yevgeni Berzak, Boris Katz, Roger Levy
We present a novel approach for determining learners' second language proficiency which utilizes behavioral traces of eye movements during reading. Our approach provides stand-alon…
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…
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…