Linguistic Profiling based on General--purpose Features and Native Language Identification
Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄, Giulia Venturi⋄, Simonetta Montemagni⋄ · CNR ExploRA · 2013
In this paper, we describe our approach to native language identification and discuss the results we submitted as participants to the First NLI Shared Task. By resorting to a wide set of general-purpose features qualifying the lexical and grammatical structure of a text, rather than to ad hoc features specifically selected for the NLI task, we achieved encouraging results, which show that the proposed approach is general-purpose and portable across different tasks, domains and languages.