69 - Second language acquisition modeling, with Burr Settles by NLP Highlights published on 2018-09-10T16:53:56Z A shared task held in conjunction with a NAACL 2018 workshop, organized by Burr Settles and collaborators at Duolingo. Burr tells us about the shared task. The goal of the task was to predict errors that a language learner would make when doing exercises on Duolingo. We talk about the details of the data, why this particular data is interesting to study for second language acquisition, what could be better about it, and what systems people used to approach this task. We also talk a bit about what you could do with a system that can predict these kinds of errors to build better language learning systems. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Second-Language-Acquisition-Modeling-Settles-Brust/10685728fab1dfe9d1cf0cd4240ed687dd601ac6 Comment by Mirage and a Spanish data set :) .. I wish that I had time to learn more languages such as French and Spanish :) .. 2019-10-05T20:15:20Z Comment by Mirage a French data set :) .. for people learning French :D .. 2019-10-05T20:13:16Z Comment by Mirage "not only engaging the fields of computer science, machine learning and "natural" (- :) -) language processing but also to engage cognitive science, phychology, and researchers from applied linguistics etc." .. :D 2019-10-05T20:11:07Z Comment by Mirage "lots of learner corpora coming out of the second language acqusition communities" .. 2019-10-05T19:45:53Z