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Joachim Wagner
CNGL system administrator,
postgraduate research student
School of Computing
Dublin City University
+353 (0)1 700 6915
jwagner@computing.DCU.IE

My office is L2.04 facing the PostDoc lab in the new CNGL area.

Integrating High-Level CL Technology into Computer-Assisted Language Learning

My current research is probabilistic detection of ungrammatical sentences for CALL. I aim to develop a new CL technology for judging grammaticality of input based on existing probabilistic parsers. This way I hope to make available the advantages of these parsers (broad coverage and high robustness) to CALL.

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Collaborators

The first three years of this research were supported by The Embark Initiative.
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Research Interests

Publications, talks etc.

Joachim Wagner and Jennifer Foster (2009): The effect of correcting grammatical errors on parse probabilities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09), Paris, France, 7th-9th October, 2009

Joachim Wagner, Jennifer Foster and Josef van Genabith (2009): Judging Grammaticality: Experiments in Sentence Classification. In CALICO Journal, pages 474-490, volume 26, number 3

Jennifer Foster, Joachim Wagner, and Josef van Genabith (2008): Adapting a WSJ-Trained Parser to Grammatically Noisy Text. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Short Papers, pages 221-224, Columbus, OH, June 15-20, 2008

Deirdre Hogan, Jennifer Foster, Joachim Wagner and Josef van Genabith (2008): Parser-Based Retraining for Domain Adaptation of Probabilistic Generators (Title of early draft: Investigating the Effect of Domain Variation on Generation Performance). In Proceedings of the 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG08), Salt Fork Park, Ohio, June 12-14, 2008

Jennifer Foster, Joachim Wagner, and Josef van Genabith (2008): Using Decision Trees to Detect and Classify Grammatical Errors. Talk presented jointly by Jennifer and me at the Calico '08 Workshop on Automatic Analysis of Learner Language: Bridging Foreign Language Teaching Needs and NLP Possibilities, University of San Francisco, March 18 and 19, 2008, PDF

Joachim Wagner (2008): Nadja Nesselhauf, Collocations in a Learner Corpus. Book review in Machine Translation Vol 20, pages 301-303, DOI: 10.1007/s10590-007-9028-8, Draft PDF

Joachim Wagner, Djamé Seddah, Jennifer Foster and Josef van Genabith (2007): C-Structures and F-Structures for the British National Corpus. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG07), pages 418-438, CSLI Publications, Stanford University, July 28-30, 2007, PDF from publisher website

Joachim Wagner, Jennifer Foster and Josef van Genabith (2007): A Comparative Evaluation of Deep and Shallow Approaches to the Automatic Detection of Common Grammatical Errors. In Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL) , Prague, June 28-30, 2007 (Extended version presented at the Summer 2007 ParGram meeting in Palo Alto.)

Jennifer Foster, Joachim Wagner, Djamé Seddah and Josef van Genabith (2007): Adapting WSJ-Trained Parsers to the British National Corpus using In-Domain Self-Training. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2007), Prague, June 23-24, 2007

Joachim Wagner, Jennifer Foster and Josef van Genabith (2006): Detecting Grammatical Errors Using Probabilistic Parsing. Talk presented by Jennifer at the Workshop on Interfaces of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Ohio State University, December 17, 2006,

Gareth J. F. Jones, Michael Burke, John Judge, Anna Khasin, Adenike Lam-Adesina and Joachim Wagner (2005): Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Retrieval. In Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images: 5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, Carol Peters, Paul Clough, Julio Gonzalo, G.Jones, M.Kluck and B.Magnini (Eds.), Volume 3491 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 207 - 220, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany (in print), 2005.

Petra Ludewig and Joachim Wagner (2004): Collocations - mediating between lexical abstractions and textual concretions. In Proc. of the sixth TALC conference, pages 32 -33, Granada, Spain - Handout

Cara Greene, Katrina Keogh, Thomas Koller, Joachim Wagner, Monica Ward and Josef van Genabith (2004): Using NLP Technology in CALL. In NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems - Proc. of InSTIL/ICALL2004 Symposium on Computer Assisted Language Learning, ed. Rodolfo Delmonte, Philippe Delcloque and Sara Tonelli, pages 55 - 58, Venice, Italy - Handout, more

Joachim Wagner (2004): A false friend exercise with authentic material retrieved from a corpus. In NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems - Proc. of InSTIL/ICALL2004 Symposium on Computer Assisted Language Learning, pages 115 - 118, Venice, Italy - Poster, more

Monica Ward, Thomas Koller and Joachim Wagner (2003): Integrating Techniques from computational Linguistics into Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Poster presented at the Annual IRCSET Symposium 2003, Dublin, Ireland

Joachim Wagner (2003): Datengesteuerte maschinelle Übersetzung mit flachen Analysestrukturen, Master's thesis, Universität Osnabrück, Germany

Jahn-Takeshi Saito, Joachim Wagner, Graham Katz, Philip Reuter, Michael Burke, and Sabine Reinhard (2002): Evaluation of GermaNet: Problems Using GermaNet for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proc. of the LREC Workshop on WordNet Structure and Standardization and how THese Affect WordNet Applications and Evaluation, pages 14-29, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Norman Kummer and Joachim Wagner (2002): Phrase processing for detecting collocations with KoKS, In online Proc. of Colloc02 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Collocations, http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/colloc02/, Vienna, Austria - more

Arno Erpenbeck, Britta Koch, Norman Kummer, Philip Reuter, Patrick Tschorn and Joachim Wagner (2002): KOKS - Korpusbasierte Kollokationssuche, technical report (Abschlussbericht), Universität Osnabrück, Germany

Enlarged NCLT Logo

NCLT logo
This is an enlarged and edited version of the tiny NCLT logo that can be found on the NCLT website. I created this version to improve its appearance on posters.
Download: 1360 x 1152 image [96 KB]

Building Letter Codes

building letter codes
Excerpt from http://www.dcu.ie/buildings/downloads/brochure.pdf [846 KB]

Corpus Preprocessing

I was involved in the work on corpus preprocessing in several projects:

ProjectCorpusYear
LogoTax Spiegel 1999
KoKS De-News and EuroParl (project's own download) 2001
My M.A. Harry Potter 1-4 2003
PhD research leser-service.de (book excerpts) 2004
DCU CLEF Newspaper 2004
PhD research Glasgow Herald (sample) 2005
PhD research EuroParl (OPUS) 2005
PhD research Jennifer Foster's error corpus 2006
PhD research BNC 1.0 2006
PhD research JPU learner corpus (sample) 2007
PhD research PELCRA learner corpus (sample) 2007
PhD research Microsoft ``ESL 123 Mass Noun Examples'' 2007
PhD research ICLE learner corpus 2008
PhD research WSJ raw sections 26-60 (PTB v0.75) 2008
PhD research Gonzaga learner corpus (sample) 2008

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