Multiple Admissibility: Judging Grammaticality using Unlabeled Data in Language Learning

Anisia Katinskaia, Sardana Ivanova


Abstract
We present our work on the problem of Multiple Admissibility (MA) in language learning. Multiple Admissibility occurs in many languages when more than one grammatical form of a word fits syntactically and semantically in a given context. In second language (L2) education - in particular, in intelligent tutoring systems/computer-aided language learning (ITS/CALL) systems, which generate exercises automatically - this implies that multiple alternative answers are possible. We treat the problem as a grammaticality judgement task. We train a neural network with an objective to label sentences as grammatical or ungrammatical, using a “simulated learner corpus”: a dataset with correct text, and with artificial errors generated automatically. While MA occurs commonly in many languages, this paper focuses on learning Russian. We present a detailed classification of the types of constructions in Russian, in which MA is possible, and evaluate the model using a test set built from answers provided by the users of a running language learning system.
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W19-3702
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Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing
Month:
August
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
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Tomaž Erjavec, Michał Marcińczuk, Preslav Nakov, Jakub Piskorski, Lidia Pivovarova, Jan Šnajder, Josef Steinberger, Roman Yangarber
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BSNLP
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SIGSLAV
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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12–22
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-3702
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-3702
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Anisia Katinskaia and Sardana Ivanova. 2019. Multiple Admissibility: Judging Grammaticality using Unlabeled Data in Language Learning. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing, pages 12–22, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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