TY - BOOK
T1 - Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification
T2 - Explorations in the Detection-Based Approach
AU - Jarvis, Scott
AU - Crossley, Scott A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2012 Scott Jarvis, Scott A. Crossley and the authors of individual chapters.
PY - 2012/3/14
Y1 - 2012/3/14
N2 - Recent work has pointed to the need for a detection-based approach to transfer capable of discovering elusive crosslinguistic effects through the use of human judges and computer classifiers that can learn to predict learners’ language backgrounds based on their patterns of language use. This book addresses that need. It details the nature of the detection-based approach, discusses how this approach fits into the overall scope of transfer research, and discusses the few previous studies that have laid the groundwork for this approach. The core of the book consists of five empirical studies that use computer classifiers to detect the native-language affiliations of texts written by foreign language learners of English. The results highlight combinations of language features that are the most reliable predictors of learners’ language backgrounds.
AB - Recent work has pointed to the need for a detection-based approach to transfer capable of discovering elusive crosslinguistic effects through the use of human judges and computer classifiers that can learn to predict learners’ language backgrounds based on their patterns of language use. This book addresses that need. It details the nature of the detection-based approach, discusses how this approach fits into the overall scope of transfer research, and discusses the few previous studies that have laid the groundwork for this approach. The core of the book consists of five empirical studies that use computer classifiers to detect the native-language affiliations of texts written by foreign language learners of English. The results highlight combinations of language features that are the most reliable predictors of learners’ language backgrounds.
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M3 - Book
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SN - 9781847696977
BT - Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification
PB - Channel View Publications
ER -