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Building a learner corpus for Russian

Ekaterina Rakhilina
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Anastasia Vyrenkova
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Elmira Mustakimova
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Alina Ladygina
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Ivan Smirnov
Sholokhov Moscow State, University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

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Published in: Proceedings of the joint workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning and NLP for Language Acquisition at SLTC, Umeå, 16th November 2016

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 130:9, p. 66-75

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Published: 2016-11-15

ISBN: 978-91-7685-633-8

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

In this paper we describe an open learner corpus of Russian. The Russian Learner Corpus (RLC) is the first corpus with clear distinction between foreign language learners and heritage speakers. We discuss the structure of the corpus, its development and the annotation principles. This paper describes the platform of the RLC which combines online tools for text uploading, processing, error annotation and corpus search.

Keywords

Learner corpus, Error annotation, Corpus processing tool, Pedagogical resource

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