Document Similarity Measures to Distinguish Native vs. Non-Native Essay Writers

The ability to distinguish statistically different populations of speakers or writers can be an important asset in many NLP applications. In this paper, we describe a method of using document similarity measures to describe differences in behavior between native and non-native speakers of English in a writing task.1

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: NAACL
• Authors: Olga Gurevich, Paul Deane
• Keywords: Computational Linguistics, Document Similarity Measures, Important Asset, NAACL 2007, Non-native Speakers