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Error diagnosis for language learning systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2021

Wolfgang Menzel  and
Ingo Schröder
Wolfgang Menzel
Affiliation:
Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg
Ingo Schröder
Affiliation:
Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg
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Abstract

A diagnostic component for natural language utterances has been devised which allows one to integrate (possibly inconsistent) evidence from a wide range of knowledge sources into a unique decision procedure. It is based on a procedure for the disambiguation of dependency structures using graded constraints. Different description levels like syntax, semantics, and others are treated by separate structural representations, which are disambiguated simultaneously. Due to the complete symmetry of the system architecture the approach allows for the successful handling of a wide variety or student errors.

Type
Research Article
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ReCALL , Volume 11 , Issue S1: Natural Language Processing In Computer-Assisted Language Learning , May 1999 , pp. 20 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 1999

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This article is an extended version of a paper presented at the NLP+IA 98 conference in Moncton, Canada.

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