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SUMMARY:The Weakest Link: Detecting and Correcting Errors in Learner Engli
 sh - Pete Whitelock\, Sharp Laboratories
DTSTART:20061103T120000Z
DTEND:20061103T130000Z
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CONTACT:NLIP Seminars
DESCRIPTION:There is a pre-theoretic intuition that stretches of text with
  low probability should correspond to errors of the type made by non-nativ
 e writers. Unfortunately\, perfectly well-formed text can be quite unlikel
 y according to a contiguous n-gram model. I'll describe how I built a depe
 ndency-structure model for English in which unlikelihood is a much better 
 indicator of error and present some preliminary results.
LOCATION:SW01 Computer Laboratory
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