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

Native Language Identification Using a Mixture of Character and Word N-grams

Native language identification (NLI) is the task of determining an author{'}s native language, based on a piece of his/her writing in a second language. In recent years, NLI has received much attention due to its challen…

The Role of Emotions in Native Language Identification

We explore the hypothesis that emotion is one of the dimensions of language that surfaces from the native language into a second language. To check the role of emotions in native language identification (NLI), we model e…

Can characters reveal your native language? A language-independent approach to native language identification

Bhasha-Abhijnaanam: Native-script and romanized Language Identification for 22 Indic languages

We create publicly available language identification (LID) datasets and models in all 22 Indian languages listed in the Indian constitution in both native-script and romanized text. First, we create Bhasha-Abhijnaanam, a…

Native Language Identification with User Generated Content

We address the task of native language identification in the context of social media content, where authors are highly-fluent, advanced nonnative speakers (of English). Using both linguistically-motivated features and th…