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# BEA 2017: all accepted papers

52 papers · the most cited first · [← BEA 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2017/)

1. **[A Report on the 2017 Native Language Identification Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5007/)**Shervin Malmasi, Keelan Evanini, Aoife Cahill et al.*160 citations*
2. **[Investigating neural architectures for short answer scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5017/)**Brian Riordan, Andrea Horbach, Aoife Cahill et al.*151 citations*
3. **[Multiple Choice Question Generation Utilizing An Ontology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5034/)**Katherine Stasaski, Marti A. Hearst*63 citations*
4. **[Artificial Error Generation with Machine Translation and Syntactic Patterns](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2017-artificial-error-generation-machine-translation/)**Marek Rei, Mariano Felice, Zheng Yuan et al.*48 citations · our summary*
5. **[Connecting the Dots: Towards Human-Level Grammatical Error Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5037/)**Shamil Chollampatt, Hwee Tou Ng*47 citations*
6. **[Distractor Generation for Chinese Fill-in-the-blank Items ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5015/)**Shu Jiang, John Lee*43 citations*
7. **[Using Gaze to Predict Text Readability ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5050/)**Ana Valeria González-Garduño, Anders Søgaard*35 citations*
8. **[A Large Scale Quantitative Exploration of Modeling Strategies for Content Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5052/)**Nitin Madnani, Anastassia Loukina, Aoife Cahill*32 citations*
9. **[The Power of Character N-grams in Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5043/)**Artur Kulmizev, Bo Blankers, Johannes Bjerva et al.*30 citations*
10. **[Auxiliary Objectives for Neural Error Detection Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5004/)**Marek Rei, Helen Yannakoudakis*29 citations*
11. **[Question Difficulty – How to Estimate Without Norming, How to Use for Automated Grading ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5001/)**Ulrike Padó*27 citations*
12. **[Systematically Adapting Machine Translation for Grammatical Error Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5039/)**Courtney Napoles, Chris Callison-Burch*27 citations*
13. **[Predicting Specificity in Classroom Discussion ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5006/)**Luca Lugini, Diane Litman*22 citations*
14. **[Structured Generation of Technical Reading Lists ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5029/)**Jonathan Gordon, Stephen Aguilar, Emily Sheng et al.*21 citations*
15. **[Stacked Sentence-Document Classifier Approach for Improving Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5049/)**Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta*20 citations*
16. **[Combining CNNs and Pattern Matching for Question Interpretation in a Virtual Patient Dialogue System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5002/)**Lifeng Jin, Michael White, Evan Jaffe et al.*19 citations*
17. **[Question Generation for Language Learning: From ensuring texts are read to supporting learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5038/)**Maria Chinkina, Detmar Meurers*19 citations*
18. **[CIC-FBK Approach to Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5042/)**Ilia Markov, Lingzhen Chen, Carlo Strapparava et al.*17 citations*
19. **[Human and Automated CEFR-based Grading of Short Answers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5018/)**Anaïs Tack, Thomas François, Sophie Roekhaut et al.*17 citations*
20. **[Native Language Identification on Text and Speech ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5045/)**Marcos Zampieri, Alina Maria Ciobanu, Liviu P. Dinu*17 citations*
21. **[Combining Multiple Corpora for Readability Assessment for People with Cognitive Disabilities ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5013/)**Victoria Yaneva, Constantin Orăsan, Richard Evans et al.*16 citations*
22. **[Fine-grained essay scoring of a complex writing task for native speakers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5040/)**Andrea Horbach, Dirk Scholten-Akoun, Yuning Ding et al.*15 citations*
23. **[Predicting Audience's Laughter During Presentations Using Convolutional Neural Network ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5009/)**Lei Chen, Chong Min Lee*15 citations*
24. **[Can string kernels pass the test of time in Native Language Identification? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5024/)**Radu Tudor Ionescu, Marius Popescu*14 citations*
25. **[Fewer features perform well at Native Language Identification task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5028/)**Taraka Rama, Çağrı Çöltekin*13 citations*
26. **[A study of N-gram and Embedding Representations for Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5026/)**Sowmya Vajjala, Sagnik Banerjee*12 citations*
27. **[Exploring Relationships Between Writing & Broader Outcomes With Automated Writing Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5011/)**Jill Burstein, Dan McCaffrey, Beata Beigman Klebanov et al.*11 citations*
28. **[Effects of Lexical Properties on Viewing Time per Word in Autistic and Neurotypical Readers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5030/)**Sanja Štajner, Victoria Yaneva, Ruslan Mitkov et al.*10 citations*
29. **[Classifier Stacking for Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5044/)**Wen Li, Liang Zou*9 citations*
30. **[Evaluation of Automatically Generated Pronoun Reference Questions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5008/)**Arief Yudha Satria, Takenobu Tokunaga*8 citations*
31. **[Simplifying metaphorical language for young readers: A corpus study on news text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5035/)**Magdalena Wolska, Yulia Clausen*8 citations*
32. **[Exploring Optimal Voting in Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5041/)**Cyril Goutte, Serge Léger*7 citations*
33. **[A deep-learning based native-language classification by using a latent semantic analysis for the NLI Shared Task 2017 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5047/)**Yoo Rhee Oh, Hyung-Bae Jeon, Hwa Jeon Song et al.*5 citations*
34. **[An Error-Oriented Approach to Word Embedding Pre-Training ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5016/)**Youmna Farag, Marek Rei, Ted Briscoe*5 citations*
35. **[Automatic Extraction of High-Quality Example Sentences for Word Learning Using a Determinantal Point Process ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5014/)**Arseny Tolmachev, Sadao Kurohashi*5 citations*
36. **[GEC into the future: Where are we going and how do we get there? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5019/)**Keisuke Sakaguchi, Courtney Napoles, Joel Tetreault*5 citations*
37. **[Language Based Mapping of Science Assessment Items to Skills ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5036/)**Farah Nadeem, Mari Ostendorf*5 citations*
38. **[Transparent text quality assessment with convolutional neural networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5031/)**Robert Östling, Gintare Grigonyte*5 citations*
39. **[Annotating Orthographic Target Hypotheses in a German L1 Learner Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5051/)**Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Katrin Ortmann, Anna Ehlert et al.*4 citations*
40. **[Continuous fluency tracking and the challenges of varying text complexity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5003/)**Beata Beigman Klebanov, Anastassia Loukina, John Sabatini et al.*4 citations*
41. **[Ensemble Methods for Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5023/)**Sophia Chan, Maryam Honari Jahromi, Benjamin Benetti et al.*4 citations*
42. **[Native Language Identification Using a Mixture of Character and Word N-grams ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5022/)**Elham Mohammadi, Hadi Veisi, Hessam Amini*4 citations*
43. **[Native Language Identification using Phonetic Algorithms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5046/)**Charese Smiley, Sandra Kübler*4 citations*
44. **[Neural Networks and Spelling Features for Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5025/)**Johannes Bjerva, Gintarė Grigonytė, Robert Östling et al.*4 citations*
45. **[A Shallow Neural Network for Native Language Identification with Character N-grams ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5027/)**Yunita Sari, Muhammad Rifqi Fatchurrahman, Meisyarah Dwiastuti*3 citations*
46. **[Combining Textual and Speech Features in the NLI Task Using State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Techniques ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5021/)**Pavel Ircing, Jan Švec, Zbyněk Zajíc et al.*3 citations*
47. **[Detecting Off-topic Responses to Visual Prompts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5020/)**Marek Rei*3 citations*
48. **[Linked Data for Language-Learning Applications ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5005/)**Robyn Loughnane, Kate McCurdy, Peter Kolb et al.*3 citations*
49. **[Modelling semantic acquisition in second language learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5033/)**Ekaterina Kochmar, Ekaterina Shutova*3 citations*
50. **[An Investigation into the Pedagogical Features of Documents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5012/)**Emily Sheng, Prem Natarajan, Jonathan Gordon et al.*2 citations*
51. **[Collecting fluency corrections for spoken learner English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5010/)**Andrew Caines, Emma Flint, Paula Buttery*2 citations*
52. **[Fusion of Simple Models for Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5048/)**Fabio Kepler, Ramon F. Astudillo, Alberto Abad*1 citation*
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