Correcting Preposition Errors in Learner English Using Error Case Frames and Feedback Messages
Year: 2014
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper presents a novel framework called error case frames for correcting preposition errors. They are case frames specially designed for describing and cor-recting preposition errors. Their most dis-tinct advantage is that they can correct er-rors with feedback messages explaining why the preposition is erroneous. This pa-per proposes a method for automatically generating them by comparing learner and native corpora. Experiments show (i) au-tomatically generated error case frames achieve a performance comparable to con-ventional methods; (ii) error case frames are intuitively interpretable and manually modifiable to improve them; (iii) feedback messages provided by error case frames are effective in language learning assis-tance. Considering these advantages and the fact that it has been difficult to provide feedback messages by automatically gen-erated rules, error case frames will likely be one of the major approaches for prepo-sition error correction. 1
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p14-1071
Authors: Ryo Nagata, Mikko Vilenius, Edward Whittaker
Institution: Hyogo University of Teacher Education
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2251713402