This book provides the first comprehensive overview of theoretical issues, historical
developments and current trends in ICALL (Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language …

Grammar checking is the task of detection and correction of grammatical errors in the text.
English is the dominating language in the field of science and technology. Therefore, the …

This paper proposes a method to correct English verb form errors made by non-native
speakers. A basic approach is template matching on parse trees. The proposed method …

Thanks to natural language processing technologies, computer programs are actively being
used not only for holistic scoring, but also for formative evaluation of writing. CyWrite is one …

A computer conversational system can potentially help a foreignlanguage student improve
his/her fluency through practice dialogues. One of its potential roles could be to correct …

Sentence correction has been an important emerging issue in computer-assisted language
learning. However, existing techniques based on grammar rules or statistical machine …

This paper compares a deep and a shallow processing approach to the problem of
classifying a sentence as grammatically wellformed or ill-formed. The deep processing …

We discuss the relevance of HPSG for computational linguistics, and the relevance of
computational linguistics for HPSG, including: the theoretical and computational …

ABSTRACT A classifier which is capable of distinguishing a syntactically well formed
sentence from a syntactically ill formed one has the potential to be useful in an L2 language …

Computational implementations of LFG are computer programs composed of LFG annotated
c-structure rules and lexical entries. LFG was designed to be computationally tractable and …