The Far Reach of Multiword Expressions in Educational Technology
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Multiword expressions as they appear as nominal compounds, collocational forms, and idioms are now leveraged in educational technology in assessment and instruction contexts. The talk will focus on how multiword expression identification is used in different kinds of educational applications, including automated essay evaluation, and teacher professional development in curriculum development for English language learners. Recent approaches developed to resolve polarity for noun-noun compounds in a sentiment system being designed to handle evaluation of argumentation (sentiment) in testtaker writing (Beigman-Klebanov, Burstein, and Madnani, to appear) will also be described.
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