Function word choice in Spanish learner language: error annotation, automatic detection and correction

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25770207
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Aichi Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: Valverde Pilar 愛知県立大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (10588205)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: スペイン語 / 言語習得 / コーパス / 誤り検出 / 制約文法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The goal of the research is to develop a system for automatic error detection in grammatical words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, etc.), for learner of Spanish whose first language is Japanese. To do that, we have studied, for these type of learners, 1) the agreement level of language teachers when correcting errors in grammatical words, on how agreement can be improved, 2) which words are overused and underused in learner texts with respect to native texts, 3) how we can collect texts to study their interlanguage and 4) how we can use the Constraint Grammar formalism to automatically detect errors in grammatical words.

Free Research Field

コーパス言語学