Measuring English Readability for Vietnamese Speakers

no code implementations • ALTA 2019 • Phuoc Nguyen, Alex Uitdenbogerd, ra

This study introduces a first approximation to readability of English text for VL1, with suggestions for further improvements.

Readability of Twitter Tweets for Second Language Learners

no code implementations • ALTA 2019 • Patrick Jacob, Alex Uitdenbogerd, ra

Optimal language acquisition via reading requires the learners to read slightly above their current language skill level.

Language Acquisition

Cross-corpus Native Language Identification via Statistical Embedding

no code implementations • WS 2018 • Francisco Rangel, Paolo Rosso, Julian Brooke, Alex Uitdenbogerd, ra

In this paper, we approach the task of native language identification in a realistic cross-corpus scenario where a model is trained with available data and has to predict the native language from data of a different corpus.

Cross-corpus Native Language Identification

Melbourne at SemEval 2016 Task 11: Classifying Type-level Word Complexity using Random Forests with Corpus and Word List Features

no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2016 • Julian Brooke, Alex Uitdenbogerd, ra, Timothy Baldwin

Complex Word Identification Text Simplification

Word Transformation Heuristics Agains Lexicons for Cognate Detection

no code implementations • ALTA 2015 • Alex Uitdenbogerd, ra

In Your Eyes: Identifying Clich\'es in Song Lyrics

no code implementations • ALTA 2012 • Alex G. Smith, Christopher X. S. Zee, Alex Uitdenbogerd, ra L.

Information Retrieval