Campus Units
English
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Version
Submitted Manuscript
Publication Date
2018
Journal or Book Title
arxiv
Abstract
The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) guidelines describe language proficiency of learners on a scale of 6 levels. While the description of CEFR guidelines is generic across languages, the development of automated proficiency classification systems for different languages follow different approaches. In this paper, we explore universal CEFR classification using domainspecific and domain-agnostic, theory-guided as well as data-driven features. We report the results of our preliminary experiments in monolingual, cross-lingual, and multilingual classification with three languages: German, Czech, and Italian. Our results show that both monolingual and multilingual models achieve similar performance, and cross-lingual classification yields lower, but comparable results to monolingual classification.
Copyright Owner
The Authors
Copyright Date
2018
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Vajjala, Sowmya and Rama, Taraka, "Experiments with Universal CEFR Classification" (2018). English Conference Papers, Posters and Proceedings. 9.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/engl_conf/9
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Comments
This is a pre-print made available through arxiv: arXiv:1804.06636v1 .