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Rachele De Felice
I am currently a Teaching Fellow at the Department of English Language and Literature at UCL.
Previously:
- Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, working on the pragmatics of Business English emails
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Educational Testing Service (Princeton, New Jersey), working on automated identification of speech acts in emails, and on automated scoring of open score content test answers
- DPhil (PhD) in Computational Linguistics at Oxford University (Department of Computer Science), working on automatic error detection in non-native English writing, using models which can predict what preposition or determiner is most likely to occur in a given context
- MPhil in Linguistics (Computational Linguistics, Semantics, Theory of Translation), and BA in English literature, Oxford University
- full CV [pdf]
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings
Rachele De Felice and Stephen G Pulman (2009). Automatic detection of preposition errors in learner writing. CALICO Journal 26(3) (Special Issue of the 2008 CALICO Workshop on Automatic Analysis of Learner Language) [pdf]
Rachele De Felice and Stephen G Pulman (2008). A classifier-based approach to preposition and determiner error correction in L2 English. Proceedings of COLING, Manchester, United Kingdom [pdf]
Rachele De Felice and Stephen G Pulman (2007). Automatically acquiring models of preposition use. Proceedings of the ACL-07 Workshop on Prepositions, Prague, Czech Republic [pdf]
Rachele De Felice and Stephen G Pulman (2006). Using clustering to improve adjective selection in English adjective-noun pairs. Proceedings of the XL Conference of the Societa' di Linguistica Italiana, Vercelli, Italy [abstract pdf][full paper pdf]
PhD thesis: Automatic error detection in non-native English
Reports
Rachele De Felice and Paul Deane (2012). Identifying speech acts in e-mails: Toward automated scoring of the TOEIC(R) e-mail task (ETS Research Report No. RR-12-16). Princeton, NJ: ETS [full report pdf]
Conference Presentations
Rachele De Felice. A linguistic journey into the world of commitments. 6th Intervarietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) International Conference, Leeds, June 2012 [slides pdf]
Rachele De Felice. Applied Pragmatics: corpus-based methods and computational tools. Discourse and Technology: Tools, Methods, and Applications, Birmingham, May 2012 [abstract pdf]
Rachele De Felice. Developing pragmatic awareness in Business English emails IATEFL Symposium "Pragmatics and ELT – what we need to know", Glasgow, UK, March 2012
Rachele De Felice and Svenja Adolphs. The corpus in Corpus Pragmatics: decisions, data, and desiderata. British Association for Applied Linguistics, Bristol, September 2011 [abstract pdf]
Rachele De Felice and Svenja Adolphs. Pragmatic profiling of business corpora: speech act tagging. 32nd ICAME Conference, Oslo, June 2011 [abstract pdf]
Rachele De Felice. Language at work: native and non-native speech acts in Business English. Joint Conference of the BAAL Intercultural Communication Special Interest Group and The Annual Bloomsbury Round Table, London, June 2011 [abstract pdf]
Rachele De Felice. The pragmatics of the workplace: insights from speech-act annotated email corpora. 5th Intervarietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) International Conference, Edinburgh, June 2010 [abstract txt]
Rachele De Felice and Paul Deane. Identifying speech acts in emails: Business English and non-native speakers. Corpus Linguistics, Liverpool, July 2009 [slides pdf]
Rachele De Felice. I'm afraid that I should say I can't: negotiating refusals in L2 Business English emails. 5th Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse, Ann Arbor, June 2009 [slides pdf]
Reviews
Rachele De Felice. Review of Phraseology in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, Fanny Meunier and Sylviane Granger. Available at Linguist List
Rachele De Felice. Review of The Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions, Patrick Saint-Dizier. Available at Linguist List
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