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| Title | Automatic Error Detection Concerning the Definite and Indefinite Conjugation in the HunLearner Corpus |
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| Authors | Veronika Vincze, János Zsibrita, Péter Durst and Martina Katalin Szabó |
| Abstract | In this paper we present the results of automatic error detection, concerning the definite and indefinite conjugation in the extended version of the HunLearner corpus, the learners’ corpus of the Hungarian language. We present the most typical structures that trigger definite or indefinite conjugation in Hungarian and we also discuss the most frequent types of errors made by language learners in the corpus texts. We also illustrate the error types with sentences taken from the corpus. Our results highlight grammatical structures that might pose problems for learners of Hungarian, which can be fruitfully applied in the teaching and practicing of such constructions from the language teacher’s or learners’ point of view. On the other hand, these results may be exploited in extending the functionalities of a grammar checker, concerning the definiteness of the verb. Our automatic system was able to achieve perfect recall, i.e. it could find all the mismatches between the type of the object and the conjugation of the verb, which is promising for future studies in this area. |
| Topics | Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Morphology |
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Automatic Error Detection Concerning the Definite and Indefinite Conjugation in the HunLearner Corpus |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{VINCZE14.340, author = {Veronika Vincze and János Zsibrita and Péter Durst and Martina Katalin Szabó}, title = {Automatic Error Detection Concerning the Definite and Indefinite Conjugation in the HunLearner Corpus}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |