Attempts to profile authors based on their characteristics, including native language, have drawn attention in recent years, via several approaches using machine learning with simple features. In this paper we investigate the potential usefulness to this task of contrastive analysis from second language acquistion research, which postulates that the (syntactic) errors in a text are influenced b...

We outline the first application of Native Language Identification (NLI) to Finnish learner data. NLI is the task of predicting an author’s first language using writings in an acquired language. Using data from a new learner corpus of Finnish — a language typology quite different from others previously investigated, with its morphological richness potentially causing difficulties — we show that...

Most current statistical models for downscaling the remotely sensed land surface temperature (LST) are based on the assumption of the scale-invariant LST-descriptors relationship, which is being debated and requires an in-depth examination. Additionally, research on downscaling LST to high or very high resolutions (~10 m) is still rare. Here, a simple analytical model was developed to quantify ...

Management needs qualitative and comprehensive information for decision making. Managers are always searching for useful information in order to reach their firm's goals and strategies. The development in technology, globalization and focusing on costumers needs has changed the information that managers need to maintain their position in a competitive environment and take advantage of profitabl...

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The professionalism of modern teachers is determined by the level their proficiency in various competencies. In paradigm professional skills necessary for native language working at primary educational stage, textual competence key. study currently one topical areas linguistics and linguodidactics. Researchers consider general theoretical private applied aspects, from point teaching or foreign ...

In this paper, we systematically explore lexicalized and non-lexicalized local syntactic features for the task of Native Language Identification (NLI). We investigate different types of feature representations in singleand cross-corpus settings, including two representations inspired by a variationist perspective on the choices made in the linguistic system. To combine the different models, we ...

0360-1315/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2010.02.005 * Tel.: +27 46 603 8640; fax: +27 46 636 1915. E-mail address: [email protected] In 2001 Marc Prensky coined the phrase ‘digital natives’ to refer to the new generation of students who have grown up surrounded by technology. His companion papers spurred large amounts of research, debating changes that are requ...