Learning with learner corpora: Using the TLE for native language identification

Measuring Interlanguage: Native Language Identification with L1-influence Metrics

The task of native language (L1) identification suffers from a relative paucity of useful training corpora, and standard within-corpus evaluation is often problematic due to topic bias. In this paper, we introduce a meth…

Native Language Identification Using Large, Longitudinal Data

Native Language Identification (NLI) is a task aimed at determining the native language (L1) of learners of second language (L2) on the basis of their written texts. To date, research on NLI has focused on relatively sma…

Native Language Identification and Reconstruction of Native Language Relationship Using Japanese Learner Corpus

Using Classifier Features to Determine Language Transfer on Morphemes

The aim of this thesis is to perform a Native Language Identification (NLI) task where we identify an English learner{'}s native language background based only on the learner{'}s English writing samples. We focus on the …

Turkish Native Language Identification

In this paper, we present the first application of Native Language Identification (NLI) for the Turkish language. NLI involves predicting the writer's first language by analysing their writing in different languages. Whi…