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"text": "It has been noted in the linguistics literature since the 1950s that speakers of particular languages have characteristic production patterns when writing in a second language. This language transfer phenomenon has been investigated independently in a number of fields from different perspectives, including qualitative research in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and more recently though predictive computational models in NLP (Jarvis and Crossley, 2012) .",
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"text": "Such analyses have traditionally been conducted manually by researchers, and the issues that arise when they are attempted on large corpora are well known (Ellis, 2008) . Recently, researchers have noted that NLP has the tools to use large amounts of data to automate this analysis, using complex feature types. This has motivated studies in Native Language Identification (NLI), a subtype of text classification where the goal is to determine the native language (L1) of an author using texts they have written in a second language or L2 (Tetreault et al., 2013) .",
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"text": "Most work in SLA, NLI and NLP for that matter has dealt with English. This is largely due to the fact that since World War II, the world has witnessed the ascendancy of English as its lingua franca. While English is the native language of over 400 million people in the U.S., U.K. and the Commonwealth, there are also over a billion people who speak English as their second or foreign language (Guo and Beckett, 2007) . This has created a global environment where learning multiple languages is not exceptional and this has fueled the growing research into language acquisition.",
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"text": "One such example is Finland, where due to the predicted labour shortage, the government has adopted policies encouraging economic and workrelated migration (Ministry of Labour, 2006) , with an emphasis on the role of the education system. Aiding new immigrants to learn the Finnish language has been a key pillar of this policy particularly as learning the language of the host nation has been found to be an important factor for social integration and assimilation (Nieminen, 2009) . This, in turn, has motivated research in studying the acquisition of Finnish to identify the most challenging aspects of the process. 1 Finnish differs from English in many respects including verb tenses and forms (Karlsson, 2008) . It is a highly inflectional agglutinative language with a flexible word order. 2 Given these differences, the main objective of the present study is to determine if NLI techniques previously applied to L2 English can be effective for detecting L1 transfer effects in L2 Finnish.",
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"text": "While there exists a large body of literature produced in the last decade, almost all of this work has focused exclusively on L2 English. The most recent work in this field has successfully presented the first applications of NLI to a large non-English datasets (Malmasi and Dras, 2014b; Malmasi and Dras, 2014a) , evidencing the usefulness of syntactic features in distinguishing L2 Chinese and L2 Arabic texts.",
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"text": "Finnish poses a particular challenge. In terms of morphological complexity, it is among the world's most extreme: its number of cases, for example, places it in the highest category in the comparative World Atlas of Language Structures (Iggesen, 2013). Comrie (1989) proposed two scales for characterising morphology, the index of synthesis (based on the number of categories expressed per morpheme) and the index of fusion (based on the number of categories expressed per morpheme). While an isolating language like Vietnamese would have an index of synthesis score close to 1, the lowest possible score, Finnish scores particularly high on this metric (Pirkola, 2001 ). Because of this morphological richness, and because it is typically associated with freeness of word order, Finnish potentially poses a problem for the quite strongly lexical features currently used in NLI.",
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"text": "Although the majority of currently available learner corpora are based on English L2 (Granger 2012), data collection from learners of other languages such as Finnish has also attracted attention in recent years. The present study is based on texts from the Corpus of Advanced Learner Finnish (LAS2) which is comprised of L2 Finnish writings (Ivaska, 2014) . The texts are being collected as part of an ongoing project at the University of Turku 3 since 2007 with the goal of collection suitable data than allows for quantitative and qualitative analysis of Finnish interlanguage.",
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"text": "The current version of the corpus contains approximately 630k tokens of text in 640 texts collected from writers of 15 different L1 backgrounds. The included native language backgrounds are: Czech, English, Erzya, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Komi, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Swedish and Udmurt. The corpus texts are available in an XML format and have been annotated in terms of parts of speech, word lemmas, morphological forms and syntactic functions.",
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"text": "We use a linear Support Vector Machine to perform multi-class classification in our experiments. In particular, we use the LIBLINEAR 4 package (Fan et al., 2008) which has been shown to be efficient for text classification problems such as this. More specifically, it has been demonstrated to be the most effective classifier for this task in the 2013 NLI Shared Task (Tetreault et al., 2013) .",
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"text": "The main contributions of this work include the identification of a new dataset for NLI and employing it to demonstrate the cross-linguistic nature of NLI. This is one of the very first applications of NLI to a language other than English and an important step in the growing field of NLI, particularly with the current drive to investigate other languages. NLI technology has practical applications in various fields. One potential application is in the field of forensic linguistics (Coulthard and Johnson, 2007) , a juncture where the legal system and linguistic stylistics intersect (Gibbons and Prakasam, 2004) . Here NLI can be used as a tool for Authorship Profiling (Grant, 2007) to provide evidence about a writer's linguistic background. There are a number of situations where a text, like an anonymous letter, is the key piece of evidence in an investigation. Clues about the native language of a writer can help investigators in identifying the source. 8 Accordingly, we can see that NLI can be a useful forensic tool for law enforcement agencies. In fact, recent NLI research such as that related to the work presented by (Perkins, 2014) has already attracted interest and funding from intelligence agencies (Perkins, 2014, p. 17) .",
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"text": "There are a number of avenues for future work. A key limitation of this study, although beyond our control, is the limited amount of data used. We hope to evaluate our system on larger data as it becomes available. The application of more linguistically sophisticated features also merits further investigation, but this is limited by the availability of Finnish NLP tools and resources. Another possible improvement is the use of classifier ensembles to improve classification accuracy. This has previously been applied to English NLI with good results (Tetreault et al., 2012) .",
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