Native Language Identification Across Text Types: How Special Are Scientists?

Native Language Identification (NLI) is the task of recognizing the native language of an author from text that they wrote in another language. In this paper, we investigate the generalizability of NLI models among learner corpora, and from learner corpora to a new text type, namely scientific artic...

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Autores principales: Sabrina Stehwien, Sebastian Padó
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Lenguaje:EN
Publicado: Accademia University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/ad3c03ee29b045bcb83cade3d11d93f2
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Sumario:Native Language Identification (NLI) is the task of recognizing the native language of an author from text that they wrote in another language. In this paper, we investigate the generalizability of NLI models among learner corpora, and from learner corpora to a new text type, namely scientific articles. Our main results are: (a) the science corpus is not harder to model than some learner corpora; (b) it cannot profit as much as learner corpora from corpus combination via domain adaptation; (c) this pattern can be explained in terms of the respective models focusing on language transfer and topic indicators to different extents.