EAGLE: an Error-Annotated Corpus of Beginning Learner German

This paper describes the Error-Annotated German Learner Corpus (EAGLE), a corpus of beginning learner German with grammatical error annotation. The corpus contains online workbook and and hand-written essay data from learners in introductory German courses at The Ohio State University. We introduce an error typology developed for beginning learners of German that focuses on linguistic properties of lexical items present in the learner data and that has three main error categories for syntactic errors: selection, agreement, and word order. The corpus uses an error annotation format that extends the multi-layer standoff format proposed by L

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Adriane Boyd
• Keywords: Education, Error Annotation, Learner, LREC 2010, Multi-layer Standoff Format