Workshop 1: Presented by: Paul Deane

Monday, June 5 and Tuesday, June 6 from 9 am - 4 pm Hunter College Room 1203 East

Powerpoint Slides

Using Natural Language Processing, Writing Process Analysis.pdf

Using Natural Language Processing, Writing Process Analysis.pptx

Links for the Workshop

• Web location for CEFR Framework
• Paper on General Principles of constructed response scoring.
• Paper on CEFR Rating Process

Predicting CEFR Levels: A Case Study

Deep Learning Model

• Huggingface website – open source access to deep learning models

• Huggingface tutorial on transformers

• Crossley and Kim paper on using analytical NLP features to model writing quality

• Lu paper on automated analysis of syntactic complexity

• Gaillat et al paper on predicting CEFR levels using analytical NLP features

• Places to get research tools that return validated features:

  • SALAT

    https://www.linguisticanalysistools.org/

  • COH-METRIX

    http://tool.cohmetrix.com/

  • Docuscope

  • https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/research-and-publications/docuscope.html

  • LIWC

    https://www.liwc.app/

• LanguageTool rule-based error correction system

  • Demo: https://languagetool.org/
  • Python wrapper for languagetool: https://github.com/ETS-Next-Gen/AWE_LanguageTool

• Paper on GECTOR deep learning-based error correction system