Greetings,
And many thanks to those who responded to my request for references,
leads, etc. related to learner corpora.
Regards,
Quentin Allan
Teachers of English Language Education Centre
University of Hong Kong
Here is a summary of the responses I received:
1. Arthur McNeill, University of Hong Kong
referred me to an edited book (selected papers from a joint Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology/Gunagzhou Institute of Foreign
Languages conference). The volume is entitled, "Entering Text", edited
by Lynne Flowerdew and Anthony KK Tong, published 1994 by the Language
Centre, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
2. John Milton, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
supplied a list of references pertaining to his work on the HKUST
student corpus:
(with E. Tsang) in Studies in Lexis (Ed. R. Pemberton & E. Tsang), Hong
Kong: HKUST, 1993. 215-246.
'Tagging the Interlanguage of Chinese learners of English,' (with N.
Chowdury) in Entering Text (Ed. L. Flowerdew & K. K. Tong), Hong Kong:
HKUST, 1994. 127-143.
'A Corpus-based Online Grammar and Writing Tool for EFL Learners' in
TALC
'94 UCREL Technical Papers (Ed. A. Wilson), Lancaster University, 1994.
65-78.
'Lexical Variation in the Writing of Chinese Learners of English,' (with
R. Freeman) in Synchronic Corpus Linguistics. Papers from the sixteenth
International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized
Corpora. (Ed. C. E. Percy, C. F. Meyer, and I. Lancashire). Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 1996. 121-131.
'Exploiting L1 and L2 Corpora for CALL design: the role of a hypertext
grammar,' in Proceedings of Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC '96).
(Ed.
S. P. Botley, J. Glass, T. McEnery, A Wilson UCREL Technical Papers 9,
Lancaster University 1996. 233-243.
'From Word-processing to Text-processing,' (with I. Smallwood and J.
Purchase) in Taking Control: Autonomy in Language Learning (Ed. R.
Pemberton, E. Li & H. Pierson), Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press,
1996. 233-248.
'Providing computerized self-access opportunities for the development
of writing skills,' in Autonomy and Independence in Language Learning
(Ed.
P. Benson & P. Voller), Harlow: Longman, 1997. 237-248.
'Qualification and Certainty in L1 and L2 Students' Writing,' (with K.
Hyland) Journal of Second Language Writing. 1997. Vol. 6 (2), 183-205.
'Exploiting L1 and Interlanguage Corpora in the Design of an Electronic
Language Learning and Production Environment,' in Learner English on
Computer (Ed. S. Granger). Harlow: Longman, 1998. 186-198.
'Lexical thickets and electronic gateways: making text accessible' in
Writing: Texts, Processes & Practices (Ed. C. Candlin & K. Hyland),
Harlow: Longman. (In Press)
John Milton
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
lcjohn@usthk.ust.hk
3. Przemyslaw Kaszubski, Adam Mickiewicz University
wrote: "I've been co-ordinating the compilation of the Polish sub-corpus
of
the International Corpus of Learner English, centralised at
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. This is, unfortunately, a corpus of
tertiary EFL only, but it may be of interest for you. There's a link
to the ICLE 'Headquarters' from my Web site. There's a long bib
list there plus contact addresses - Sylviane Granger's being the
most important. Also, at my Web site you'll find a few abstracts and
texts of some of my papers - with the latest I used comparative
Polish material of school compositions. So far I've been concentrating
on lexical matters; I'm trying to go past the POS stage and use semantic
tagging."
Przemyslaw Kaszubski, M.A.
przemka@amu.edu.pl
http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/skaszub.htm
MY (ENGLISH) (LEARNER) CORPORA PAGE:
http://main.amu.edu.pl/~przemka
School of English
Adam Mickiewicz University
Al. Niepodleglosci 4
61-874 Poznan, POLAND
tel: +48 61 8528820
fax: +48 61 8523103
4. Eric Atwell, University of Leeds
wrote: "we're about to collect a (small) corpus of speech from
non-native (German
Italian and other) adult learners of English - see project ISLE website,
http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~isle/
This is quite different to your text corpus, I suspect - even your
spoken
corpus will be transcripts of speech rather than high-quality digital
reocrdings for training speech recogniser language models."
Lancaster University (UCREL) do lots of realted stuff - see
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/
Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, SOCRATES
Coordinator,
and Director, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech
(CCALAS)
School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
EMAIL: eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk TEL: (44)113-2335761 FAX: (44)113-2335468
WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html
5. Hilde Hasselgård
(among others) suggested contacting Professor Sylviane Granger at the
university of Louvain, Belgium, who's co-ordinating the ICLE project
(International Corpus of Learner English.
Professor Sylviane Granger
Université Catholique de Louvain
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
Collège Erasme
Place Blaise Pascal 1
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/ETAN/CECL/cecl.html
6. Sylviane Granger, Université Catholique de Louvain
referred me to her new book 'Learner English on Computer'. published
1998 by Addison Wesley Longman, London & New York
7. Ann Fiddes, Cambridge University Press
referred me to the TALC 98 conference website which has information
about several projects involving learner English.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98/
Ann Fiddes
Corpus Co-ordinator
ELT Reference - Cambridge University Press
Direct line: +44 1223 325945
Email: afiddes@cup.cam.ac.uk
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Greetings,
And many thanks to those who responded to my request for references, leads, etc. related to learner corpora.
Regards,
Quentin Allan
Teachers of English Language Education Centre
University of Hong Kong
Here is a summary of the responses I received:
1. Arthur McNeill, University of Hong Kong
referred me to an edited book (selected papers from a joint Hong Kong University of Science and Technology/Gunagzhou Institute of Foreign Languages conference). The volume is entitled, "Entering Text", edited by Lynne Flowerdew and Anthony KK Tong, published 1994 by the Language Centre, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
2. John Milton, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
supplied a list of references pertaining to his work on the HKUST student corpus:
(with E. Tsang) in Studies in Lexis (Ed. R. Pemberton & E. Tsang),
Hong
Kong: HKUST, 1993. 215-246.
'Tagging the Interlanguage of Chinese learners of English,' (with N.
Chowdury) in Entering Text (Ed. L. Flowerdew & K. K. Tong), Hong
Kong:
HKUST, 1994. 127-143.
'A Corpus-based Online Grammar and Writing Tool for EFL Learners' in
TALC
'94 UCREL Technical Papers (Ed. A. Wilson), Lancaster University, 1994.
65-78.
'Lexical Variation in the Writing of Chinese Learners of English,' (with
R. Freeman) in Synchronic Corpus Linguistics. Papers from the sixteenth
International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized
Corpora. (Ed. C. E. Percy, C. F. Meyer, and I. Lancashire). Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 1996. 121-131.
'Exploiting L1 and L2 Corpora for CALL design: the role of a hypertext
grammar,' in Proceedings of Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC '96).
(Ed.
S. P. Botley, J. Glass, T. McEnery, A Wilson UCREL Technical Papers
9,
Lancaster University 1996. 233-243.
'From Word-processing to Text-processing,' (with I. Smallwood and J.
Purchase) in Taking Control: Autonomy in Language Learning (Ed. R.
Pemberton, E. Li & H. Pierson), Hong Kong: Hong Kong University
Press,
1996. 233-248.
'Providing computerized self-access opportunities for the development
of writing skills,' in Autonomy and Independence in Language Learning
(Ed.
P. Benson & P. Voller), Harlow: Longman, 1997. 237-248.
'Qualification and Certainty in L1 and L2 Students' Writing,' (with
K.
Hyland) Journal of Second Language Writing. 1997. Vol. 6 (2), 183-205.
'Exploiting L1 and Interlanguage Corpora in the Design of an Electronic
Language Learning and Production Environment,' in Learner English on
Computer (Ed. S. Granger). Harlow: Longman, 1998. 186-198.
'Lexical thickets and electronic gateways: making text accessible' in
Writing: Texts, Processes & Practices (Ed. C. Candlin & K.
Hyland),
Harlow: Longman. (In Press)
John Milton
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
lcjohn@usthk.ust.hk
3. Przemyslaw Kaszubski, Adam Mickiewicz University
wrote: "I've been co-ordinating the compilation of the Polish sub-corpus
of
the International Corpus of Learner English, centralised at
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. This is, unfortunately, a corpus of
tertiary EFL only, but it may be of interest for you. There's a link
to the ICLE 'Headquarters' from my Web site. There's a long bib
list there plus contact addresses - Sylviane Granger's being the
most important. Also, at my Web site you'll find a few abstracts
and
texts of some of my papers - with the latest I used comparative
Polish material of school compositions. So far I've been concentrating
on lexical matters; I'm trying to go past the POS stage and use semantic
tagging."
Przemyslaw Kaszubski, M.A.
przemka@amu.edu.pl
http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/skaszub.htm
MY (ENGLISH) (LEARNER) CORPORA PAGE:
http://main.amu.edu.pl/~przemka
School of English
Adam Mickiewicz University
Al. Niepodleglosci 4
61-874 Poznan, POLAND
tel: +48 61 8528820
fax: +48 61 8523103
4. Eric Atwell, University of Leeds
wrote: "we're about to collect a (small) corpus of speech from non-native
(German
Italian and other) adult learners of English - see project ISLE website,
http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~isle/
This is quite different to your text corpus, I suspect - even your
spoken
corpus will be transcripts of speech rather than high-quality digital
reocrdings for training speech recogniser language models."
Lancaster University (UCREL) do lots of realted stuff - see
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/
Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, SOCRATES Coordinator,
and Director, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech
(CCALAS)
School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT,
England
EMAIL: eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk TEL: (44)113-2335761
FAX: (44)113-2335468
WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html
5. Hilde Hasselgård
(among others) suggested contacting Professor Sylviane Granger at the
university of Louvain, Belgium, who's co-ordinating the ICLE project (International
Corpus of Learner English.
Professor Sylviane Granger
Université Catholique de Louvain
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
Collège Erasme
Place Blaise Pascal 1
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/ETAN/CECL/cecl.html
6. Sylviane Granger, Université Catholique de Louvain
referred me to her new book 'Learner English on Computer'. published 1998 by Addison Wesley Longman, London & New York
7. Ann Fiddes, Cambridge University Press
referred me to the TALC 98 conference website which has information about several projects involving learner English. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98/
Ann Fiddes
Corpus Co-ordinator
ELT Reference - Cambridge University Press
Direct line: +44 1223 325945
Email: afiddes@cup.cam.ac.uk
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