Presentation 2014-06-21
Toward Automatic Extraction of Characteristic Features of English Composition by Japanese College Students : Preliminary Experiments and Issues to be Addressed
Hiroaki YAMADA, Yutaka ISHII, Yasunari HARADA,
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Abstract(in English) We are accumulating electronic files of English composition by university freshmen. For the past ten years or so, about 50 to 90 students enrolled in three English classes taught by the last author are submitting 15 essays per year, each in three different versions. The first is what the students come up with in half hour or so in class after engaging what we call "oral response practice," in which a group of three students in turn read a question card aloud, respond to the question and video record the interaction. Sets of 10 question cards around one topic are prepared by the teacher and distributed to the groups with a video camera. After class, students will spend some time to "complete" their compositions and submit them during the next class and review other students' essays within groups of six. The students are asked to revise the essays and submit the final version during the following class. In addition to the students' peer review comments, it would be desirable if the students can get feedback by statistical analysis of parsing and other processing of their own essays but the files submitted has to go through some pre-processing for the parser and analyzers to work properly. In this presentation, we report on your preliminary study and experimentation.
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Keyword(in English) extraction / characteristics and features / learner composition / Japanese learners of English / syntactic analysis
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Conference Date 2014/6/14(1days)
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Title (in English) Toward Automatic Extraction of Characteristic Features of English Composition by Japanese College Students : Preliminary Experiments and Issues to be Addressed
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Keyword(1) extraction
Keyword(2) characteristics and features
Keyword(3) learner composition
Keyword(4) Japanese learners of English
Keyword(5) syntactic analysis
1st Author's Name Hiroaki YAMADA
1st Author's Affiliation School of Law, Waseda University()
2nd Author's Name Yutaka ISHII
2nd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Education, Waseda University
3rd Author's Name Yasunari HARADA
3rd Author's Affiliation Faculty of Law, Waseda University
Date 2014-06-21
Paper # TL2014-10
Volume (vol) vol.114
Number (no) 100
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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