69 - Second language acquisition modeling, with Burr Settles

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