Native Language Identification with User Generated Content
Gili Goldin, Ella Rabinovich, Shuly Wintner · 2018
We address the task of native language identification in the context of social media content, where authors are highly-fluent, advanced nonnative speakers (of English).Using both linguistically-motivated features and the characteristics of the social media outlet, we obtain high accuracy on this challenging task.We provide a detailed analysis of the features that sheds light on differences between native and nonnative speakers, and among nonnative speakers with different backgrounds.