Language Development and Cross-Lingual Studies

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Newsletter #12

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• Cross-Lingual Lexico-Semantic Transfer in Language Learning

Ekaterina Kochmar and Ekaterina Shutova



• Cross-lingual Wikification Using Multilingual Embeddings

Chen-Tse Tsai and Dan Roth

• Comparing Fifty Natural Languages and Twelve Genetic Languages Using Word Embedding Language Divergence (WELD) as a Quantitative Measure of Language Distance

Ehsaneddin Asgari and Mohammad R.K. Mofrad

• Interpretese vs. Translationese: The Uniqueness of Human Strategies in Simultaneous Interpretation

He He, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Hal Daumé III

• Learning Translations for Tagged Words: Extending the Translation Lexicon of an ITG for Low Resource Languages

Markus Saers and Dekai Wu

• Mapping Verbs in Different Languages to Knowledge Base Relations using Web Text as Interlingua

Derry Tanti Wijaya and Tom Mitchell

• Polyglot Neural Language Models: A Case Study in Cross-Lingual Phonetic Representation Learning

Yulia Tsvetkov, Sunayana Sitaram, Manaal Faruqui, Guillaume Lample, Patrick Littell, David R. Mortensen, Alan W Black, Lori Levin, and Chris Dyer

• The Validation of MRCPD Cross-language Expansions on Imageability Ratings

Ting Liu, Kit Cho, Tomek Strzalkowski, Samira Shaikh, and Mehrdad Mirzaei

• Unsupervised Ranked Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution for Low-Resource Languages

Stefan Ecker, Andrea Horbach, and Stefan Thater

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Newsletter #11

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• A Corpus-Based Study of zunshou and Its English Equivalents

Ying Liu

• A Multifactorial Analysis of English Particle Movement in Korean EFL Learners’ Writings

Gyu-Hyeong Lee, Ha-Eung Kim, and Yong-Hun Lee

• A Review of Corpus-based Statistical Models of Language Variation

Yao Yao

• Acoustic-prosodic entrainment in Slovak, Spanish, English and Chinese: A cross-linguistic comparison

Rivka Levitan, Štefan Beňuš, Agustin Gravano, and Julia Hirschberg

• A Statistical Modeling of the Correlation between Island Effects and Working-memory Capacity for L2 Learners

Euhee Kim and Myungkwan Park

• HMM-Based Non-native Accent Assessment Using Posterior Features

Ramya Rasipuram, Milos Cernak, and Mathew Magimai-Doss

• Input Seed Features for Guiding the Generation Process: A Statistical Approach for Spanish

Cristina Barros and Elena Lloret

• Large-scale Dictionary Construction via Pivot-based Statistical Machine Translation with Significance Pruning and Neural Network Features

Raj Dabre, Chenhui Chu, Fabien Cromieres, Toshiaki Nakazawa, and Sadao Kurohashi

• Multilingual Native Language Identification

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras

• Multilingual Summarization with Polytope Model

Natalia Vanetik and Marina Litvak

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Newsletter #9

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• An Agent-based Model of a Historical Word Order Change

Jelke Bloem, Arjen Versloot, and Fred Weerman

• Application of a Corpus to Identify Gaps between English Learners and Native Speakers

Katsunori Kotani and Takehiko Yoshimi

• Comparing the Linguistic Complexity in Receptive and Productive Modes

Jessie Saraza Barrot

• Feature Extraction for Native Language Identification Using Language Modeling

Vincent Kríž, Martin Holub, and Pavel Pecina

• Non-native text analysis with Syntactic Diff, a general comparative text mining framework

Sean Alexander Massung

• Norwegian Native Language Identification

Shervin Malmasi and Irina Temnikova

• Syntactic complexity in college-level English writing: Differences among writers with diverse L1 backgrounds

Xiaofei Lu and Haiyang Ai

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Newsletter #8

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• An Investigation of Native and Nonnative English Speakers’ Levels of Written Syntactic Complexity in Asynchronous Online Discussions

Rae L. Mancilla, Nihat Polat, and Ahmet O. Akcay

• Constraint-Based Models of Lexical Borrowing

Yulia Tsvetkov, Waleed Ammar, and Chris Dyer

• Continuous Space Representations of Linguistic Typology and their Application to Phylogenetic Inference

Yugo Murawaki

• Feature Analysis for Native Language Identification

Sergiu Nisioi

• Large-Scale Native Language Identification with Cross-Corpus Evaluation

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras

• Using Shallow Syntactic Features to Measure Influences of L1 and Proficiency Level in EFL Writings

Andrea Horbach, Jonathan Poitz, and Alexis Palmer

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Newsletter #7

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• Frequency-influenced choice of L2 sound realization and perception: evidence from two Chinese dialects

Yizhou Lan

• The L2 Acquisition of the Chinese Aspect Marking

Suying Yang

• Native and non-native class discrimination using speech rhythm- and auditory-based cues

S.-A. Selouani, Y. Alotaibi, W. Cichocki, S. Gharsellaoui, and K. Kadi

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Newsletter #6

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• Can characters reveal your native language? A language-independent approach to native language identification

Radu Tudor Ionescu, Marius Popescu, and Aoife Cahill

• Exploring Syntactic Features for Native Language Identification: A Variationist Perspective on Feature Encoding and Ensemble Optimization

Serhiy Bykh and Detmar Meurers

• Finnish Native Language Identification

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras

• Language Family Relationship Preserved in Non-native English

Ryo Nagata

• Language Transfer Hypotheses with Linear SVM Weights

Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras

• Towards a collocation writing assistant for learners of Spanish

Margarita Alonso Ramos, Marcos Garcıa Salido, and Orsolya Vincze

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Newsletter #2

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• Automatic Identification of Learners’ Language Background Based on Their Writing in Czech

Katsiaryna Aharodnik, Marco Chang, Anna Feldman, and Jirka Hana

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