Re: Corpora: error tagging of learners' English

From: Pete Whitelock (pete@sharp.co.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 17:04:54 MET

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    There was a product called 'Native English' Writing Assistant originally
    developed in 1997 by INSO who were taken over by L&H around 1998. It
    installs into Word, Netscape or whatever, and seems (to me) pretty
    similar to Word's own grammar checker, although it does claim to address
    the specific problems characteristic of learners of French, Spanish or
    German - you set your L1 when you install it. It's also got bilingual
    dictionaries for these languages.

    I can't find a mention of it at L&H's web site, http://www.lhsl.com/, so
    maybe it's been discontinued. They were giving out free trial CDs at
    Coling Montreal in 98 - there are probably lots of these floating about.

    Pete

    vicky man wrote:
    >
    > I'd like to know if there are any 'error tagging' softwares that can
    > effectively indicate the kinds of errors found in learners' English?
    > 

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