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.ukOn 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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