Native Language Identification using large scale lexical features

Robust, Lexicalized Native Language Identification

Anglicized Words and Misspelled Cognates in Native Language Identification

In this paper, we present experiments that estimate the impact of specific lexical choices of people writing in a second language (L2). In particular, we look at misspelled words that indicate lexical uncertainty on the …

Are Language Models Borrowing-Blind? A Multilingual Evaluation of Loanword Identification across 10 Languages

Throughout language history, words are borrowed from one language to another and gradually become integrated into the recipient's lexicon. Speakers can often differentiate these loanwords from native vocabulary, particul…

Stacked Sentence-Document Classifier Approach for Improving Native Language Identification

In this paper, we describe the approach of the ItaliaNLP Lab team to native language identification and discuss the results we submitted as participants to the essay track of NLI Shared Task 2017. We introduce for the fi…

Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Complex Word Identification

Complex Word Identification (CWI) is an important task in lexical simplification and text accessibility. Due to the lack of CWI datasets, previous works largely depend on Simple English Wikipedia and edit histories for o…