L1-L2 Parallel Dependency Treebank as Learner Corpus

John Lee, Keying Li, Herman Leung


Abstract
This opinion paper proposes the use of parallel treebank as learner corpus. We show how an L1-L2 parallel treebank — i.e., parse trees of non-native sentences, aligned to the parse trees of their target hypotheses — can facilitate retrieval of sentences with specific learner errors. We argue for its benefits, in terms of corpus re-use and interoperability, over a conventional learner corpus annotated with error tags. As a proof of concept, we conduct a case study on word-order errors made by learners of Chinese as a foreign language. We report precision and recall in retrieving a range of word-order error categories from L1-L2 tree pairs annotated in the Universal Dependency framework.
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W17-6306
Volume:
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Pisa, Italy
Editors:
Yusuke Miyao, Kenji Sagae
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IWPT
SIG:
SIGPARSE
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
44–49
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-6306
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John Lee, Keying Li, and Herman Leung. 2017. L1-L2 Parallel Dependency Treebank as Learner Corpus. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies, pages 44–49, Pisa, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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L1-L2 Parallel Dependency Treebank as Learner Corpus (Lee et al., IWPT 2017)
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-6306.pdf
Data
Universal Dependencies