Ana Díaz-Negrillo, Detmar Meurers, Salvador Valera, and Holger Wunsch
Language Forum, Vol. 36, No 1-2. 139-154. Special Issue on Corpus Linguistics for Teaching and Learning. In Honour of John Sinclair, edited by María Moreno Jaén and Carmen Pérez Basanta. 2010.
Learner corpora can serve as a teaching resource for Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) and contribute empirical insights for Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research. To support effective querying for the specific classes of data which are relevant under the FLT and SLA perspectives, learner corpora ideally should include linguistic annotation. We argue for an approach to Part-Of-Speech (POS) tagging of learner corpora that systematically encodes the distributional, morphological, and lexical aspects specific to such interlanguage. Based on NOCE, an English learner corpus by Spanish learners, we characterize areas where the properties of learner language systematically differ from those assumed by POS annotation schemes developed for native language.
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@Article{diaz-negrillo-et-al-09,
author = {Ana Díaz-Negrillo and
Detmar Meurers and
Salvador Valera and
Holger Wunsch},
title = {Towards interlanguage POS annotation for effective
learner corpora in SLA and FLT},
journal = {Language Forum},
publisher = {Bahri Publications}
address = {New Delhi}
volume = 36,
number = {1--2},
pages = {139--154},
issn = {0253-9071},
editor = {María Moreno Jaén and Carmen Pérez Basanta},
note = {Special Issue on Corpus Linguistics for Teaching and
Learning. In Honour of John Sinclair},
year = 2010,
url = {http://purl.org/dm/papers/diaz-negrillo-et-al-09.html}
}