Linguistic Differences in Abstracts Written by Native and Non-Native Speakers of English: A Pilot Study = Nyelvi eltérések angol és nem angol anyanyelvű szerzők összefoglalóiban? Egy kísérleti tanulmány

Li, Xiaoyun and Vincze, Veronika (2019) Linguistic Differences in Abstracts Written by Native and Non-Native Speakers of English: A Pilot Study = Nyelvi eltérések angol és nem angol anyanyelvű szerzők összefoglalóiban? Egy kísérleti tanulmány. ALKALMAZOTT NYELVÉSZETI KÖZLEMÉNYEK, 14 (2). pp. 209-221. ISSN 1788-9979

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyze a corpus of abstracts collected from MA theses written by English major students in the United Kingdom, China and Hungary. We make use of several features derived from the linguistic analysis of abstracts; moreover, we also perform some machine learning experiments in order to see what features are the most useful for distinguishing the language use of the three groups of English speakers. It is revealed that it is primarily morphological and semantic features that distinguish native and non-native language use. As for the two groups of non-native speakers, Hungarians tend to use their personal viewpoint more frequently while Chinese prefer to be more objective. All in all, morphological features seem to contribute the most to the automatic distinction of the three groups of speakers.

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