Levi King


2018

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Annotating picture description task responses for content analysis
Levi King | Markus Dickinson
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

Given that all users of a language can be creative in their language usage, the overarching goal of this work is to investigate issues of variability and acceptability in written text, for both non-native speakers (NNSs) and native speakers (NSs). We control for meaning by collecting a dataset of picture description task (PDT) responses from a number of NSs and NNSs, and we define and annotate a handful of features pertaining to form and meaning, to capture the multi-dimensional ways in which responses can vary and can be acceptable. By examining the decisions made in this corpus development, we highlight the questions facing anyone working with learner language properties like variability, acceptability and native-likeness. We find reliable inter-annotator agreement, though disagreements point to difficult areas for establishing a link between form and meaning.

2016

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Shallow Semantic Reasoning from an Incomplete Gold Standard for Learner Language
Levi King | Markus Dickinson
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

2014

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IUCL: Combining Information Sources for SemEval Task 5
Alex Rudnick | Levi King | Can Liu | Markus Dickinson | Sandra Kübler
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014)

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Leveraging known Semantics for Spelling Correction
Levi King | Markus Dickinson
Proceedings of the third workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning

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The IUCL+ System: Word-Level Language Identification via Extended Markov Models
Levi King | Eric Baucom | Timur Gilmanov | Sandra Kübler | Dan Whyatt | Wolfgang Maier | Paul Rodrigues
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching

2013

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Shallow Semantic Analysis of Interactive Learner Sentences
Levi King | Markus Dickinson
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

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Domain Adaptation for Parsing
Eric Baucom | Levi King | Sandra Kübler
Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing RANLP 2013