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Invalid Syntax: NooJ Assisted Automatic Detection of Errors in Auxiliaries and Past Participles in Italian

Emanuele CipollaIgnazio Mauro Mirto

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business.industryComputer sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectComputer Science (all)Foreign languageCommitInflectional morpheme generationLanguage acquisitioncomputer.software_genreSyntaxAgreementSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E LinguisticaMorphemeCALLSelection (linguistics)Mathematics (all)Artificial intelligencebusinessParticiplecomputerAutomatic identification of grammatical relationNatural language processingmedia_common

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The work targets two areas of Italian morphosyntax: auxiliary selection (AS) and past participle agreement (PPA). In selecting such inflectional morphemes, learners of Italian commit frequent errors, even after a long period of constant study. We aim to enclose AS and PPA within the boundaries of NLP in order that a tool can be developed with a twofold purpose: first, it helps experts to build specific computer drills regarding AS and PPA; second, it assists self-taught learners in verifying whether their periphrastic sentences in Italian are well-turned. This area of Computer-Assisted Language Learning is currently poorly investigated. Further research might substantiate the importance of a field which is aimed at facilitating the study of a foreign language and simultaneously stimulate advances in NLP.

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2017-12-31
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73420-0_10