CIC-FBK Approach to Native Language Identification

Ilia Markov, Lingzhen Chen, Carlo Strapparava, Grigori Sidorov

Abstract
We present the CIC-FBK system, which took part in the Native Language Identification (NLI) Shared Task 2017. Our approach combines features commonly used in previous NLI research, i.e., word n-grams, lemma n-grams, part-of-speech n-grams, and function words, with recently introduced character n-grams from misspelled words, and features that are novel in this task, such as typed character n-grams, and syntactic n-grams of words and of syntactic relation tags. We use log-entropy weighting scheme and perform classification using the Support Vector Machines (SVM) algorithm. Our system achieved 0.8808 macro-averaged F1-score and shared the 1st rank in the NLI Shared Task 2017 scoring.
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W17-5042
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Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
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September
Year:
2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Joel Tetreault, Jill Burstein, Claudia Leacock, Helen Yannakoudakis
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BEA
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SIGEDU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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374–381
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-5042
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-5042
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Ilia Markov, Lingzhen Chen, Carlo Strapparava, and Grigori Sidorov. 2017. CIC-FBK Approach to Native Language Identification. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 374–381, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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