On the similarities between native, non-native and translated texts

Ella Rabinovich; Sergiu Nisioi; Noam Ordan; Shuly Wintner

doi:10.18653/v1/p16-1176

On the similarities between native, non-native and translated texts

Ella Rabinovich
, Sergiu Nisioi
, Noam Ordan
, Shuly Wintner

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

We present a computational analysis of three language varieties: native, advanced non-native, and translation. Our goal is to investigate the similarities and differences between non-native language productions and translations, contrasting both with native language. Using a collection of computational methods we establish three main results: (1) the three types of texts are easily distinguishable; (2) non-native language and translations are closer to each other than each of them is to native language; and (3) some of these characteristics depend on the source or native language, while others do not, reflecting, perhaps, unified principles that similarly affect translations and non-native language.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Long Papers
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	1870-1881
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510827585
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/p16-1176
State	Published - 2016
Event	54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Berlin, Germany Duration: 7 Aug 2016 → 12 Aug 2016

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Name	54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Long Papers
Volume	4

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Conference	54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	7/08/16 → 12/08/16

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© 2016 Association for Computational Linguistics.

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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Rabinovich, E., Nisioi, S., Ordan, N., & Wintner, S. (2016). On the similarities between native, non-native and translated texts. In 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Long Papers (pp. 1870-1881). (54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Long Papers; Vol. 4). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/p16-1176

Rabinovich, Ella ; Nisioi, Sergiu ; Ordan, Noam et al. / On the similarities between native, non-native and translated texts. 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Long Papers. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016. pp. 1870-1881 (54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Long Papers).

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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Rabinovich E, Nisioi S, Ordan N, Wintner S. On the similarities between native, non-native and translated texts. In 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Long Papers. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2016. p. 1870-1881. (54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Long Papers). doi: 10.18653/v1/p16-1176

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