An application of answer set programming to the field of second language acquisition

DOI10.1017/S1471068413000653MaRDI QIDQ4601065zbMATHFDO

Authors Daniela Inclezan

Publication date 19 January 2018

Published in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2506

zbMATH Keywords

answer set programmingnatural languagequalitative scientific theoriessecond-language acquisition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic programming (68N17) Memory and learning in psychology (91E40) Natural language processing (68T50)

Abstract: This paper explores the contributions of Answer Set Programming (ASP) to the study of an established theory from the field of Second Language Acquisition: Input Processing. The theory describes default strategies that learners of a second language use in extracting meaning out of a text, based on their knowledge of the second language and their background knowledge about the world. We formalized this theory in ASP, and as a result we were able to determine opportunities for refining its natural language description, as well as directions for future theory development. We applied our model to automating the prediction of how learners of English would interpret sentences containing the passive voice. We present a system, PIas, that uses these predictions to assist language instructors in designing teaching materials. To appear in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP).

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