Browsing Publications by Author "Berzak, Yevgeni"

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    • Anchoring and Agreement in Syntactic Annotations 

      Berzak, Yevgeni; Huang, Yan; Barbu, Andrei; Korhonen, Anna; Katz, Boris (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2016-09-21)
      Published in the Proceedings of EMNLP 2016 We present a study on two key characteristics of human syntactic annotations: anchoring and agreement. Anchoring is a well-known cognitive bias in human decision making, where ...

    • Contrastive Analysis with Predictive Power: Typology Driven Estimation of Grammatical Error Distributions in ESL 

      Berzak, Yevgeni; Reichart, Roi; Katz, Boris (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2016-06-05)
      This work examines the impact of crosslinguistic transfer on grammatical errors in English as Second Language (ESL) texts. Using a computational framework that formalizes the theory of Contrastive Analysis (CA), we demonstrate ...

    • Do You See What I Mean? Visual Resolution of Linguistic Ambiguities 

      Berzak, Yevgeni; Barbu, Andrei; Harari, Daniel; Katz, Boris; Ullman, Shimon (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2016-06-10)
      Understanding language goes hand in hand with the ability to integrate complex contextual information obtained via perception. In this work, we present a novel task for grounded language understanding: disambiguating a ...

    • Reconstructing Native Language Typology from Foreign Language Usage 

      Berzak, Yevgeni; Reichart, Roi; Katz, Boris (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2014-04-25)
      Linguists and psychologists have long been studying cross-linguistic transfer, the influence of native language properties on linguistic performance in a foreign language. In this work we provide empirical evidence for ...

    • Universal Dependencies for Learner English 

      Berzak, Yevgeni; Kenney, Jessica; Spadine, Carolyn; Wang, Jing Xian; Lam, Lucia; e.a. (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2016-08-01)
      We introduce the Treebank of Learner English (TLE), the first publicly available syntactic treebank for English as a Second Language (ESL). The TLE provides manually annotated POS tags and Universal Dependency (UD) trees ...