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What do we Really Know about State of the Art NER?
Sowmya Vajjala, Ramya Balasubramaniam
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a well researched NLP task and is widely used in real world NLP scenarios. NER research typically focuses on the creation of new ways of training…
A Neural Pairwise Ranking Model for Readability Assessment
Justin Lee, Sowmya Vajjala
Automatic Readability Assessment (ARA), the task of assigning a reading level to a text, is traditionally treated as a classification problem in NLP research. In this paper, we pro…
Teaching NLP outside Linguistics and Computer Science classrooms: Some challenges and some opportunities
Sowmya Vajjala
NLP's sphere of influence went much beyond computer science research and the development of software applications in the past decade. We see people using NLP methods in a range of…
Are pre-trained text representations useful for multilingual and multi-dimensional language proficiency modeling?
Taraka Rama, Sowmya Vajjala
Development of language proficiency models for non-native learners has been an active area of interest in NLP research for the past few years. Although language proficiency is mult…
Experiments with Universal CEFR Classification
Sowmya Vajjala, Taraka Rama
The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) guidelines describe language proficiency of learners on a scale of 6 levels. While the description of CEFR guidelines is generic a…
The Relevance of Text and Speech Features in Automatic Non-native English Accent Identification
Sowmya Vajjala, Ziwei Zhou
This paper describes our experiments with automatically identifying native accents from speech samples of non-native English speakers using low level audio features, and n-gram fea…