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Evaluating and automating the annotation of a learner corpus

Language Resources and Evaluation, 2013
The paper describes a corpus of texts produced by non-native speakers of Czech. We discuss its annotation scheme, consisting of three interlinked tiers, designed to handle a wide range of error types present in the input. Each tier corrects different types of errors; links between the tiers allow capturing errors in word order and complex discontinuous
Alexandr Rosen, Jirka Hana, Barbora Stindlová, Anna Feldman   +3 more
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Definite article bridging relations in L2: A learner corpus study

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2019
Bridging relations are used when the identity of a discourse-new entity can be inferred via lexical relations from an antecedent (e. g. a cake … the slice) or non-lexically via reference to world knowledge or discourse structure (e. g.
P. Crosthwaite
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On over- and underuse in learner corpus research and multifactoriality in corpus linguistics more generally

Journal of Second Language Studies, 2018
This paper critically discusses how corpus linguistics in general, but learner corpus research in particular, has been dealing with all sorts of frequency data in general, but over- and underuse frequencies in particular. I demonstrate on the basis of
S. Gries
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Prosody in a contrastive learner corpus

2013
This article presents the detailed description, constitution and rhythm analyses of an oral English L1/L2 learner corpus spoken by both native speakers of British English (L1) and French learners of English (L2). This contrastive learner database called ANGLISH was designed at the University of Provence at the Parole et Langage laboratory for a PhD ...
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COLLOCATIONS IN A LEARNER CORPUS

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
COLLOCATIONS IN A LEARNER CORPUS. Nadia Nesselhauf. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2004. Pp. xii + 331. $126.00 cloth. Based on the author's dissertation, this volume provides a close look at the verb-noun collocations used by native German speakers writing argumentative or descriptive essays in English.
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The ALeSKo learner corpus

2012
The ALesKo learner corpus is a small-scale comparable corpus consisting of two subcorpora: annotated essays by advanced Chinese learners of German and comparable essays by German native speakers. The motivation for its compilation was the investigation of discourse-related phenomena such as local coherence in second-language acquisition of German ...
Heike Zinsmeister, Margit Breckle
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Learner use of a corpus as a reference tool in error correction: Factors influencing consultation and success

Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2019
This study examines the use of the BYU-BNC (Davies, 2004) as a reference tool by learners to correct their written errors. The aim is to investigate which factors, including learner type and error type, prompted the use of the corpus, whether or not the ...
M. Bridle
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Building a TOCFL Learner Corpus for Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2018
This study describes the construction of a TOCFL learner corpus and its usage for Chinese grammatical error diagnosis. We collected essays from the Test Of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL) and annotated grammatical errors using hierarchical tagging ...
Lung-Hao Lee, Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Li-ping Chang   +2 more
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Building a local learner corpus

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 2018
This paper describes the construction process involved in creating a robust local learner corpus of texts produced by international students in a first-year writing course at a large public, mid-western university in the U.S.
M. H. Kwon, R. Partridge, S. Staples
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Collocations in a Learner Corpus

2005
Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building material of learner collocations examined, and the ...
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