Learner corpora
The English split infinitive: A comparative study of learner corpora
... To sum up, the corpus data from the two sub-corpora evidently imply a significantly increased use of split infinitives as the learners’ English proficiency rises. Not only do high-proficiency learners, such as the ...
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Entity Coherence in Comparable Learner Corpora: Seeking Pedagogical Insights
... Abstract. This paper describes an ongoing collaborative project, between Japanese and U.S. universities, that aims to build, analyze and use comparable learner corpora in an attempt to promote ...
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Towards a Motivated Annotation Schema of Collocation Errors in Learner Corpora
... The relevance of annotated learner corpora in second language acquisition is generally acknowledged to date; cf., among others, (Dagneaux et al., 1998; Granger, 1998, 2007; Tono, 2003). As a rule, the ...
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Evaluating CEFR rater performance through the analysis of spoken learner corpora
... more learner corpora of European lan- guages should be constructed to investigate how language proficiency develops, in order to provide empirical evidence for the CEFR ...
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From distributions to labels: A lexical proficiency analysis using learner corpora
... This paper presents work on how we can link word lists derived from learner corpora to tar- get proficiency levels for lexical complexity analysis. The word lists present frequency dis- tributions over ...
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Agreement Errors in Learner Corpora across CEFR: A Computer-Aided Error Analysis of Greek and Turkish EFL Learners Written Productions
... of learner corpus data (extracted from Cambridge Learner Corpus – CLC) to carry out an error analysis to investigate authentic learner errors and their respective frequencies in terms of types and ...
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Using Other Learner Corpora in the 2013 NLI Shared Task
... The other approach to using these external cor- pora is to add the data directly to the TOEFL-11 data and train a single classifier. This is very straightfor- ward; really the only variable is which corpora will ...
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Exploring word order in learner corpora: The Woslac Project
... It involves a detailed analysis of linguistic features in native and non-native corpora to uncover and study non-native features in the speech and writing of (advanced) non-native speakers. This includes errors, ...
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Learning with learner corpora: Using the TLE for native language identification
... of learner En- glish, and the researchers ultimately found that by combining all of the features using a SVM, they could achieve an accuracy of ...of Learner English (ICLE) (Granger et ...
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Building a Large Annotated Corpus of Learner English: The NUS Corpus of Learner English
... of learner text that could have served as a standard resource for empirical ap- proaches to grammatical error correction (Leacock et ...annotated learner corpora were all either too small or ...
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The effect of disfluencies and learner errors on the parsing of spoken learner language
... on learner corpora, Ott & Ziai (2010) report general robustness using MaltParser on written German learner language; however, they found that by manually correcting POS tags, LAS improved from ...
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The role of motivation in EFL students’ perceptions of teacher/learner responsibilities and learner abilities
... It is the aim of this study to investigate EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students ’ perceptions of teacher/learner responsibilities and learner decision-making abilities at tertiary level - ...
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Peer Feedback in Learner‑Learner Interaction Practices. Mixed Methods Study on an xMOOC
... education’s learner-learner interaction practices in xMOOCs generate an improvement in the quality of learning and academic ...regarding learner-learner interaction and feedback ...configure ...
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Parsed Corpora for Linguistics
... The outcome of the three experiments was the same in each case: frequency information cannot explain the difficulty encountered by agrammatic patients. Verb-second is more frequent than verb- final word order for lexical ...
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Super Learner In Prediction
... One aspect of high dimensional data analysis is that it is often beneficial to screen the variables before running the prediction algorithms. With the super learner framework, screening of variables can be either ...
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Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora Enhanced with Parallel Corpora
... comparable corpora to dis- cover parallel sentences (Resnik and Smith, 2003; Yang and Li, 2003; Munteanu and Marcu, 2005; Abdul-Rauf and Schwenk, 2009, among others), this work contributes to the bridging of the ...
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The Effectiveness of Learner Stories.
... Participants will complete a post-test to gather data regarding the participants comprehension of learning outcomes, self assessment, competency analysis and overall satisfaction with[r] ...
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Perplexity on Reduced Corpora
... Unfortunately, however, most corpora in the real world are not so large that the above- mentioned relation holds. Actually, Ha et al. (Ha et al., 2002; Ha et al., 2006) experimentally found that although a k-gram ...
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Students' Perceptions of Learner-Learner Interactions that Weaken a Sense of Community in an Online Learning Environment
... of learner-learner interactions helped to foster or weaken a sense of community for you? and 3) Were there any learner-learner interactions that made you feel more connected or disconnected to ...
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QTLeap WSD/NED Corpora: Semantic Annotation of Parallel Corpora in Six Languages
... parallel corpora automatically annotated with several NLP tools, including lemma and part-of-speech tagging, named-entity recognition and classification, named-entity disambiguation, word-sense disambiguation, and ...
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