Predicting CEFR levels in learners of English: The use of microsystem criterial features in a machine learning approach

T Gaillat, A Simpkin, N Ballier, B Stearns, A Sousa… - ReCALL, 2022 - cambridge.org
This paper focuses on automatically assessing language proficiency levels according to
linguistic complexity in learner English. We implement a supervised learning approach as …

Automated classification of written proficiency levels on the CEFR-scale through complexity contours and RNNs

E Kerz, D Wiechmann, Y Qiao, E Tseng… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Automatically predicting the level of second language (L2) learner proficiency is an
emerging topic of interest and research based on machine learning approaches to language …

Mwe for essay scoring english as a foreign language

R Wilkens, D Seibert, X Wang… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Mastering a foreign language like English can bring better opportunities. In this context,
although multiword expressions (MWE) are associated with proficiency, they are usually …

Cross-corpora experiments of automatic proficiency assessment and error detection for spoken English

S Bannò, M Matassoni - Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
The growing demand for learning English as a second language has led to an increasing
interest in automatic approaches for assessing spoken language proficiency. One of the …

Back to grammar: Using grammatical error correction to automatically assess L2 speaking proficiency

S Bannò, M Matassoni - Speech Communication, 2024 - Elsevier
In an interconnected world where English has become the lingua franca of culture,
entertainment, business, and academia, the growing demand for learning English as a …

A survey of models for constructing text features to classify texts in natural language

K Lagutina, N Lagutina - 2021 29th Conference of Open …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this survey we systematize the state-of-the-art features that are used to model texts for text
classification tasks: topical and sentiment classification, authorship attribution, style …

Syntactic complexity measures as linguistic correlates of proficiency level in learner Russian

O Kisselev, A Klimov, M Kopotev - Complexity, accuracy and fluency in …, 2022 - torrossa.com
The study reports on the results of a corpus-based evaluation of automatically extracted
syntactic complexity measures as indices of Russian as a foreign language (FL) and …

Jingle BERT, Jingle BERT, Frozen All the Way: Freezing Layers to Identify CEFR Levels of Second Language Learners Using BERT

RM Sánchez, D Alfter, S Dobnik, M Szawerna… - Swedish Language …, 2024 - ecp.ep.liu.se
In this paper, we investigate the question of how much domain adaptation is needed for the
task of automatic essay assessment by freezing layers in BERT models. We test our …

Automated Scoring of English Essays in CEFR Levels using LSTM and DistilBERT Embeddings

N Utami, FZ Ruskanda - 2023 10th International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages or often abbreviated as
CEFR is an international standard that is currently used globally to measure language …

Automatic Assessment of L2 Spoken English

S Bannò - 2023 - iris.unitn.it
In an increasingly interconnected world where English has become the lingua franca of
business, culture, entertainment, and academia, learners of English as a second language …