Re: Corpora: error tagging of learners' English

From: E S Atwell (eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 15:14:49 MET

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    Vicki,
    you didnt specify what sort of errors and what sort of learner's English;

    - if you're looking for spelling and grammar errors in text, Microsoft
    Word-2000 is the best I know of, it red-underlines spelling errors,
    and faint-underlines "grammatical" errors (ie errors involving more than
    one word); it even suggests corrections.

    - if you're dealing with spoken English and want software to detect
    pronunciation errors (and suggest corrections), try the downloadable ISLE
    demo pronunciation tutor,
    http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~isle/download.html

    Neither system is a "batch-oriented tagger" ie they are not designed for
    high-volume Corpus throughput.

    Incidentally, the ISLE project also collected the ISLE Spoken database of
    non-native English, about 18 hours of learners' speech, annotated with
    errors (at word- phone- or stress-level), available as 4 CDs from ELRA,
    see http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~isle/speech.html 

    -- 
Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor
School of Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
TEL: (44)113-2335430  FAX: (44)113-2335468
WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric  EMAIL: eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk

    On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, vicky man wrote:

    > Dear all,
> 
> I'd like to know if there are any 'error tagging' softwares that can
> effectively indicate the kinds of errors found in learners' English?
> 
> Your suggestions would be very much appreciated.
> 
> all the best, Vicky
> 
> *****
> Vicky Man
> Language Center
> Hong Kong Baptist University
> Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
> 
> 
>

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