We present a study of the impact of morphological and syntactic ambiguity in the process of grammatical error detection. We will present three different systems that have been devised with the objective of detecting grammatical errors in Basque and will examine the influence of ambiguity in their results. We infer that the ambiguity rate in the input to an error detection tool can have a consid...

This study examined the role of error-type and working memory (WM) in effectiveness direct-metalinguistic indirect written corrective feedback (WCF) on self error-correction first-language writing. Fifty-one French first-year psychology students volunteered to participate experiment. They carried out a task after receiving WCF typographical, orthographic, grammatical, semantic errors. Results i...

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Spontaneously produced Russian speech errors were analyzed for factors that may be expected to determine cognitive entrenchment. The results suggest that entrenchment determinants are relevant throughout the process of spoken language production, including phonological encoding, lemma retrieval, selection of inflected word forms, and grammatical agreement computation, and that the degree of ent...

Abstract The study aimed at investigating the efficacy of written corrective feedback (CF) in improving Iranian EFL learners’ grammatical accuracy. It compared the effects of focused and unfocused written CF on the learners’ grammatical accuracy. 75 EFL students formed a one control and two experimental groups. The focused feedback group was provided with error correction in tenses. The unfocus...

On the basis of the corpus of English Majors’ Composition of Ludong University (EMC corpus), this thesis analyzes the errors in Chinese English Majors’ English writing and the reasons resulting in the errors. The research reveals that in the EMC corpus the proportion of “grammatical errors” ranks the highest, followed by “wrong usage”, “syntactic errors” and “errors of discourse constructions a...

This paper describes a method of detecting grammatical and lexical errors made by Japanese learners of English and other techniques that improve the accuracy of error detection with a limited amount of training data. In this paper, we demonstrate to what extent the proposed methods hold promise by conducting experiments using our learner corpus, which contains information on learners’ errors.

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We describe a system for detecting and correcting instances of a small class of frequently occurring grammatical error types in a corpus of essays which have been manually annotated for these errors. Our system employs a precise broad-coverage grammar of English which has been augmented with a set of mal-rules and malentries to explicitly license certain types of erroneous expressions. The deri...