stylometrics

SHARED TASK DESCRIPTION

We are excited to organize the first shared task in Native Language Identification (NLI) which is the task of identifying the native language (L1) of a writer based solely on a sample of their writing. The task is framed as a classification problem where the set of L1s is known a priori. Most work has focused on identifying the native language of writers learning English as a second language. This problem has been growing in popularity and has motivated several ACL, NAACL and EMNLP papers, as well as a master's and doctorate thesis.

The workshop on “Annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities” will be held on January 5, 2012 at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) (http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/ACRH10/).