"Could you make me a favour and do coffee, please?": Implications for Automatic Error Correction in English and Dutch
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The correct choice of words has proven challenging for learners of a second language and errors of this kind form a separate category in error typology. This paper focuses on one known example of two verbs that are often confused by non-native speakers of Germanic languages, to make and to do. We conduct experiments using syntactic information and immediate context for Dutch and English. Our results show that the methods exploiting syntactic information and distributional similarity yield the best results.
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