# Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language

Authors: Leshem Choshen, Dmitry Nikolaev, Yevgeni Berzak, Omri Abend
Venue: Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2020, Online, November 19-20, 2020 (2020)

## Abstract
We present a method for classifying syntactic errors in learner language, namely errors whose correction alters the morphosyntactic structure of a sentence. The methodology builds on the established Universal Dependencies syntactic representation scheme, and provides complementary information to other error-classification systems. Unlike existing error classification methods, our method is applicable across languages, which we showcase by producing a detailed picture of syntactic errors in learner English and learner Russian. We further demonstrate the utility of the methodology for analyzing the outputs of leading Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) systems.

## Links
- arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11032
- PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.11032
- HTML: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2010.11032
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/papers/2010.11032
- alphaXiv: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2010.11032
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/V1/2020.CONLL-1.7
- ACL Anthology: https://aclanthology.org/2020.conll-1.7/
- Semantic Scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/224814089
- Publisher: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.conll-1.7

## How to cite
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/conll/ChoshenNBA20,
author       = {Leshem Choshen and
                  Dmitry Nikolaev and
                  Yevgeni Berzak and
                  Omri Abend},
  editor       = {Raquel Fern{\'{a}}ndez and
                  Tal Linzen},
  title        = {Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language
                  Learning, CoNLL 2020, Online, November 19-20, 2020},
  pages        = {97--107},
  publisher    = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.conll-1.7},
  doi          = {10.18653/V1/2020.CONLL-1.7},
  timestamp    = {Sat, 30 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/conll/ChoshenNBA20.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}