2014 overview of grammatical error diagnosis for learning chinese as a foreign language.pdf

See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: /publication/268802971 Overview of Grammatical Error Diagnosis for Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language Conference Paper · November 2014 CITATIONS 11 READS 214 3 authors, including: Liang-Chih Yu Yuan Ze University 48 PUBLICATIONS 263 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Lung-Hao Lee National Taiwan Normal University 34 PUBLICATIONS 119 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you access and read them immediately. Available from: Lung-Hao Lee Retrieved on: 22 September 2016 Liu, C.-C. et al. (Eds.) (2014). Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education. Japan: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education Overview of Grammatical Error Diagnosis for Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language Liang-Chih YUa,b, Lung-Hao LEE c,d* Li-Ping CHANG e aDepartment of Information Management, Yuen-Ze University, Taiwan bInnovation Center for Big Data and Digital Convergence, Yuen-Ze University, Taiwan cInformation Technology Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan dDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan eMandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan *lhlee@.tw Abstract: We organize a shared task on grammatical error diagnosis for learning Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) in the ICCE-2014 workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA). In this paper, we describe all aspects of this shared task, including task description, data preparation, evaluation metrics, and testing results. The aim is, through such evaluation campaigns, more advanced computer-assisted Chinese learning techniques will be emerged. Keywords: Computer-assisted language learning, shared task, Mandarin Chinese 1. Introduction China’s growing global influence has prompted a surge of in