Cross-corpus Native Language Identification via Statistical Embedding

Francisco Rangel, Paolo Rosso, Julian Brooke, Alexandra Uitdenbogerd

Abstract
In this paper, we approach the task of native language identification in a realistic cross-corpus scenario where a model is trained with available data and has to predict the native language from data of a different corpus. The motivation behind this study is to investigate native language identification in the Australian academic scenario where a majority of students come from China, Indonesia, and Arabic-speaking nations. We have proposed a statistical embedding representation reporting a significant improvement over common single-layer approaches of the state of the art, identifying Chinese, Arabic, and Indonesian in a cross-corpus scenario. The proposed approach was shown to be competitive even when the data is scarce and imbalanced.
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W18-1605
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Stylistic Variation
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June
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2018
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New Orleans
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Julian Brooke, Lucie Flekova, Moshe Koppel, Thamar Solorio
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Style-Var
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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39–43
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-1605
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10.18653/v1/W18-1605
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Francisco Rangel, Paolo Rosso, Julian Brooke, and Alexandra Uitdenbogerd. 2018. Cross-corpus Native Language Identification via Statistical Embedding. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Stylistic Variation, pages 39–43, New Orleans. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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