Native Language Identification
1st Shared Task on Native Language Identification
Submitted by Joel Tetreault on 4 January 2013 - 9:32pm
Abbreviated Title:
NLI2013
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline:
11 Mar 2013
Event Dates:
13 Jun 2013 - 14 Jun 2013
Location:
co-located with BEA8 Workshop
City:
Atlanta
State:
GA
Country:
USA
Contact:
Joel Tetreault
Contact:
Aoife Cahill
Contact:
Daniel Blanchard
Contact Email:
nlisharedtask2013 [at] gmail [dot] com SHARED TASK DESCRIPTION
We are excited to organize the first shared task in Native Language Identification (NLI) which is the task of identifying the native language (L1) of a writer based solely on a sample of their writing. The task is framed as a classification problem where the set of L1s is known a priori. Most work has focused on identifying the native language of writers learning English as a second language. This problem has been growing in popularity and has motivated several ACL, NAACL and EMNLP papers, as well as a master's and doctorate thesis.
