Despite a mere decade of existence, the field of computer learner corpus (CLC) research has been the focus of so much active international work that it seems worth taking a retrospective look at the research accomplished to date and considering the prospects for future research in both Second Language Acquisition (SLA) studies and Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) that emerge. One of the main dis...

We describe a system that grades learner answers in reading comprehension tests in the context of foreign language learning. This task, also known as short answer scoring, essentially requires determining whether a semantic entailment relationship holds between an individual learner answer and a target answer; thus semantic information is a necessary part of any automatic short answer scoring s...

This paper presents an incremental probabilistic learner that models the acquistion of syntax and semantics from a corpus of child-directed utterances paired with possible representations of their meanings. These meaning representations approximate the contextual input available to the child; they do not specify the meanings of individual words or syntactic derivations. The learner then has to ...